Dr Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven
Lecturer in International Development
Research interests
- International development
- Economics
Biography
Ingrid joined the Department of International Development at King’s in September 2021. She obtained her PhD in Economics from The New School in 2018 and held a lectureship at the University of York prior to joining King's. Her work is interdisciplinary, cutting across development economics, international political economy, economic history and development studies.
Her research is broadly centered on the role of finance in development, structural explanations for global inequalities, the political economy of development, and critically assessing the economics field itself, in particular from an anti-colonial perspective.
She is also the founder and editor of the blog Developing Economics, co-founder and Steering Group Member of Diversifying and Decolonising Economics (D-Econ), and coordinator of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE), among other things.
Research
- Development economics
- Economic methodology
- (Global) inequalities
- Development finance
- Heterodox economics
- Anti-colonial economics
Ingrid’s research spans three thematic areas: structural features of (global) inequalities, the political actors and institutions that shape economic development debates, and critically scrutinising the Economics field itself.
She has approached structural features of inequalities from both theoretical and empirical angles. For example, she has made the case for a redefinition of ‘dependency theory’ as a research program to offer guidance for a renewal of development economics by bringing in broader structural questions of how inequality is produced and reproduced in the global economy, and is currently developing a research program on international financial subordination with an interdisciplinary group of co-authors.
Empirically, she is exploring the subordinate financial position in which African countries find themselves and what this means for domestic financial markets and broader structural change.
Her research on how political actors and institutions shape economic development debates spans a broad range of issues, including the debates about financial inclusion, electronic payment systems, market-based finance, and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Finally, her research on critically scrutinising the Economics field itself ranges from exploring the impact of the use of GDP as the main measure of growth, critically evaluating the use of randomised control trials (RCTs) in Economics, to unpacking and evaluating what decolonisation entails for the Economics field, including for its understanding of post-colonial economies and racial inequalities.
Underlying these interrelated strands is Ingrid's strong interest in exposing and countering Eurocentric views of economic processes and opening up space for theorisation from the South.
Teaching
Postgraduate
- 7YYD0023 Multinational Enterprises, Global Value Chains, and Local Development
PhD supervision
Ingrid welcomes applications for PhD topics related to any of her research interests.
Further details
Research
Contemporary Marxism Research Group
The Contemporary Marxism Research Group use the varieties of Marxist theory to analyse the contemporary world, with special reference to political economy and to political and social movements.
Poverty, Inequality & Inclusive Growth research group
Exploring the causes of poverty in emerging economies and the factors that prevent people from escaping it, including who remains vulnerable to economic slow-downs.
The International Political Economy Research Group
International Political Economy research group focuses on the examination of contemporary socioeconomic and political dynamics of crisis and limitations of European and global order.
London Political Economy Network
The London Political Economy Network aims to foster cross-university exchange and networking between London-based political economy research centres
Events
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the making of the modern world
Join us for the launch of 'Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World' with author Howard W. French.
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COVID-19 through a critical agrarian studies lens
Professor Haroon Akram-Lodhi discusses his new co-edited book Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies, and points to lessons from critical agrarian studies for...
Please note: this event has passed.
Research
Contemporary Marxism Research Group
The Contemporary Marxism Research Group use the varieties of Marxist theory to analyse the contemporary world, with special reference to political economy and to political and social movements.
Poverty, Inequality & Inclusive Growth research group
Exploring the causes of poverty in emerging economies and the factors that prevent people from escaping it, including who remains vulnerable to economic slow-downs.
The International Political Economy Research Group
International Political Economy research group focuses on the examination of contemporary socioeconomic and political dynamics of crisis and limitations of European and global order.
London Political Economy Network
The London Political Economy Network aims to foster cross-university exchange and networking between London-based political economy research centres
Events
Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the making of the modern world
Join us for the launch of 'Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World' with author Howard W. French.
Please note: this event has passed.
COVID-19 through a critical agrarian studies lens
Professor Haroon Akram-Lodhi discusses his new co-edited book Handbook of Critical Agrarian Studies, and points to lessons from critical agrarian studies for...
Please note: this event has passed.