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Speaker: Susan Fitzmaurice (University of Sheffield).

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July 12, 2025 marked the first UN-designated International Day of Hope – a global rallying call to keep working towards healthy and prosperous lives for all, despite the unravelling of progress on climate, human rights, and economic inequality, and against the backdrop of persistent, horrific conflict.

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According to historical income estimates Southeast Asia and Tropical Africa were more or less at par in the 1960s. In 2020, per capita incomes in Southeast Asia were roughly three times higher than in Tropical Africa, while poverty rates had fallen under 5% in the former and exceeded 40% in the latter region. How do we make sense of this dramatic divergence of two tropical regions that shared largely comparable patterns of colonial resource extraction, labour coercion and primary commodity specialization before 1940

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