Quite an honor to be among the great @OxfordEconDept economists who have been recipients over the years. I am grateful for the incredible friends and family, wonderful cohort, and supportive mentors who have kept me sane and helped me thrive throughout the PhD years.

📢 #AMIE’s Call for #Mentees for 2025–26 is live! https://t.co/Nsx4UCHw3r Ready to expand your network and get PhD guidance? Apply by July 11: https://t.co/9H0ZChMT4a Know more at https://t.co/NP6slTtlcY #econtwitter

dakar, senegal. 1963. 📸 william klein.

Abdou Cissé is on the market from Berkeley. His job market paper measures the value of energy reliability a key part of growth and development. A great laboratory for his question is a natural experiment in Senegal: the staggered roll-out of a large-scale -national- electricity

@Phil_Lewis_ RIP TO THE LEGENDARY MUTOMBO He WAS ONE OF ONE FR

8. This GIF by Jakub Nowosad demonstrates how the Mercator projection distorts the true sizes of continents and countries on a world map.

🚨Imane Khelif s’exprime après sa victoire : « Je suis né fille, j'ai grandi fille, j'ai étudié fille et j'ai combattu comme une fille. Ceux qui m'ont attaquée ? Evidemment, il y a eu des ennemis de la gloire. Mais, sans eux, ma victoire n'aurait pas été aussi savoureuse. »

🟢 Emmanuel Eseme termine deuxième de sa série au 100m en 9s98. Le sprinter camerounais est qualifié pour les demi-finales des Jeux Olympiques #Paris2024 ⚡️🇨🇲 📸 @Eurosport_FR

#Athlétisme: Louis-François Mendy champion d’Afrique du 110m haies avec un chrono de 13’’48

Interesting Data: Did you know that In 2023,Africans spent €56.3mn on visa application fees to the EU that were rejected. The number of visas refused represents 43.1% of the total number of applications rejected. However, EU visas fees will increase from June from €80 to €90.

Dakar, 1957.

À la cérémonie d’ouverture du 15ème Sommet de l’Organisation de la Coopération Islamique (OCI), le Président de la République @PR_Diomaye a prononcé un discours historique soulignant l’ancrage du Sénégal dans l’organisation. Extraits ⤵️

@_LukasFreund_ @CamEcon @Columbia_Biz @BostonCollege Delighted that two former Oxford students---@_LukasFreund_ and @bzdiop---are going to take over @BostonCollege econ in about 1.5 years :)

Entre 2012 et 2024, la démocratie sénégalaise aura sécurisé, dans la douleur et hélas avec trop de victimes, deux acquis majeurs qui sont : - L'impossibilité politique et constitutionnelle de faire un 3e mandat. - L'impossibilité constitutionnelle de modifier la durée du mandat.

Une tribune signée par 117 universitaires sénégalais

Come to Leuven to do your PhD in #Economics 🎓 4 reasons to apply: 💸 Over 2500€ *net* per month. 😇 Fantastic faculty, students, and professional staff. 🏡Beautiful city, impressively well connected. 🍟 The best beer and chips (fries) money can buy.

In 1807, Omar ibn Said, a Muslim scholar, was stolen from Senegal & sold into slavery in America. He left behind an autobiography written in Arabic. To mark the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade & its Abolition, a thread on the remarkable story of Omar...

Honoured to contribute to “The History of African Development” textbook📘with a chapter on taxation in Africa since colonial times. Grateful to the editors for their important feedback during the writing process. @diisdk @LuEconHist