Lucy Watson is in the last year of her undergraduate degree and chose to take the dissertation option. She blogs about her research here. ‘I … Read more
Month: June 2022
Infrastructure project in Bangladesh induced marital migration by rural-born women
New research led by Dr Zaki Wahhaj and Dr Amrit Amirapu shows how a major transport infrastructure project in Bangladesh in the 1990s induced marital … Read more
Booming entrepreneurship during the Covid-19 pandemic
Dr Anthony Savagar has collaborated with Saleem Bahaj from the Bank of England’s Research Hub and Sophie Piton who works in the Bank of England’s … Read more
The long-term impacts of refugee resettlement
During Refugee Week 2022 Rinchan Mirza, comments on how European governments integrating Ukrainian refugees into their territories need to understand the long-term impacts of refugee … Read more
Thoughts on Ukrainian people and Refugee Week 2022
Earlier this year Dr Olena Nizalova, who is from Ukraine, helped family members escape to the UK. Since then she has been heavily involved in … Read more
And They’re Off!
Our Year in Industry students are about to head off! We met with them to prepare for this exciting new adventure. The new cohort for … Read more
Using personalised information delivery to improve uptake of emergency government benefits
Ongoing research by the Development Economics Research Centre at Kent, is featured in Ideas for India. Based on a field experiment in Kanpur in Uttar … Read more
Workshop: Microeconomic Approaches to Development Economics
From child marriage to climate change, conflict to wellbeing, from India to Pakistan via Uganda and Tanzania, this Dereck workshop was both diverse and International. … Read more
Expert Comment: Why are Eurozone interest rates increasing?
Euro Area inflation has reached an all-time high. Dr Luke Buchanan-Hodgman explains the European Central Bank response and its possible consequences. With the European Central … Read more
DeReCK’s third workshop: ‘Microeconomic Approaches to Development Economics’
This hybrid workshop, hosted by The Development Economics Research Centre at Kent, meets for the third time this June. The Development Economics Research Centre at … Read more