The ESRC Global Poverty & Inequality Dynamics (GPID) Research Network held a major two-day workshop on 27-28 March in London. The workshop brought together a highly international group of 36 scholars with the objective to present and discuss new research on structural change and inclusive growth that will stimulate the network’s future research agenda. 15 papers were presented on five themes of which a selection will be published as ESRC GPID working papers and then a journal special issue and/or book.

The network further organised a PhD Masterclass with Professor Arief Yusuf (Director of the SDGs Centre and Professor of Economics, Padjadjaran University, Indonesia), in which several DID PhD students presented and received feedback on work in progress. Professor Yusuf gave a lecture on the drivers of religious intolerance in Indonesia. Alongside other themes, the GPID network pursued the question if the classical Lewis model of economic development is still relevant in a series of blog posts and briefing papers.