Telma Yamou, PhD candidate has received a Frédéric Bastiat Fellowship, one-year, competitive fellowship program awarded to graduate students attending master’s, juris doctoral, and doctoral programs in … Read more
Category: Development
What India must Learn from Bangladesh’s attempts to curb Child Marriage
If child marriage in India is often seen as a solution by communities not a problem, how can we begin to tackle it? Dr Zaki … Read more
Early Human Capital Accumulation and Decentralization
Recent Guy Tchuente research shows the importance of local knowledge in the provision of publicly financed goods. Dr Guy Tchuente‘s research is included in a … Read more
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
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
How does interoperability in mobile financial services affect financial inclusion of low-income urban women in a developing country?
Dr Zaki Wahhaj and Maliha Rahanaz have obtained funding from the FIT IN initiative to explore the effects of seamless digital transactions on mobile devices … Read more
BIGD’s WEE-DiFine Initiative Awards Grant for Women’s Economic Empowerment and Digital Finance Research
“Empowering Poor Urban Women in Bangladesh through Digital Financial Services: Does Wage Payment via Mobile Money translate into Economic Empowerment?” Dr Zaki Wahhaj, Reader in … Read more
Increased religious competition worsens armed conflict in Colombia
New research by Dr Guy Tchuente, has found that religious competition substantially increases the probability of conflict-related violence in Colombia. The study, published by the Journal of … Read more
Launch: BRAC University-University of Kent collaboration.
The Department of Economics and Social Sciences (ESS), BRAC University invite you to the launch of this inaugural celebration. The Department of Economics and Social … Read more