Author: tjg

On Monday 9 September the University welcomed 90 learners from the UK’s first degree-level economics apprenticeship programme to its Canterbury campus. A partnership between the … Read more

New research shows that ‘extortionary’ corruption on the part of factory inspectors in India is helping to drive up the cost of the country’s labour … Read more

Kent graduate Catherine Onoselase has been selected to co-ordinate a UN youth initiative in The Gambia. Catherine, who graduated in 2015 with a BSc in … Read more

Economics at Kent has excelled in the National Student Survey 2019 with over 92% of students expressing overall satisfaction with the quality of their course. … Read more

Irma Clots-Figueras has been awarded the 18th Banco Sabadell Foundation Prize for Economic Research for her quantitative research work on gender aspects in political economy. … Read more

The School of Economics held its second workshop on Microeconomic Approaches to Development Economics on 24-25 June 2019. The workshop was co-sponsored by the Royal … Read more

The School was saddened to hear of the death of alumnus Dr Ambachew Mekonnen, Regional President of the Amhara region of Ethiopia, who was assassinated … Read more

A NEW project that aims to reverse the declines of wild pollinators is set to receive a multi-million pound investment from the EU’s North Sea Region Interreg … Read more

A paper by Chia-Lin Chen (University of Liverpool, London) and Roger Vickerman (University of Kent) has been published in the Asian Development Bank Institute working paper series. “High-speed rail … Read more

Research by the School’s Dr Alex Klein was cited in an article published in the The Wall Street Journal on 9 June. The article entitled ‘The South’s Economy … Read more