Month: March 2017

The School of Economics is pleased to be able to offer one additional doctoral scholarship for 2017 entry for a specific project on ‘The Role of Social Networks … Read more

‘You’ve infected a computer, locked it down and demanded a ransom. Congratulations, you’re a cybercriminal. The bad news is that you’re doing a terrible job … Read more

Falling fertility rates have often been linked to rising female wages. However, over the last 40 years the US total fertility rate has been rather … Read more

The 10th edition of Professor Tony Thirlwall’s textbook, Economics of Development: Theory and Empirics, now co-authored with Dr Penélope Pacheco-López, is published this month by Palgrave-Macmillan … Read more

The School of Economics Student Representatives have won a Kent Student Certificate of Volunteering (KSCV) by earning the greatest number of KSCV awards for hours … Read more

The School ran its third annual Alumni Networking Evening on Tuesday 14 March at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury. The event was well attended by … Read more

by Masaru Inaba and Keisuke Otsu, discussion paper KDPE 1705, March 2017. Non-technical summary The objective of this paper is to construct a dataset of Japanese … Read more

A report by the School’s Dr Zaki Wahhaj and Dr M Niaz Asadullah from the University of Malaya has been published in The Conversation on Bangladesh’s new child … Read more

by Kevin S. Nell and A. P. Thirlwall, discussion paper KDPE 1703, March 2017. Non-technical summary ‘New’ (endogenous) growth theory seeks to explain growth rate differences between countries … Read more