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Go Abroad: Bangladesh

By Grace Shore Banks | 15 December 2023

In 2021 Kent signed a Memorandum of Agreement with BRAC University based in Dhaka, Bangladesh to allow for the co-supervision of students on Kent’s School … Read more

Developing Youth Groups in Bangladesh to Support Peers at Risk of Early Marriage

By db779 | 08 May 2023

Zaki Wahhaj is awarded a Global Innovation Fund grant, aiming to reach 50 communities across Bangladesh. Professor Zaki Wahhaj is part of an international team … Read more

Measuring and Mitigating Smallholder Farmers’ Ambiguity Aversion to Climate-Smart Agriculture in Ghana

By Grace Shore Banks | 16 January 2023

Dr Adelina Gschwandtner, Dr Christian Crentsil and Professor Zaki Wahhaj are piloting an innovative approach to understanding the impact of ambiguity in an ongoing study with smallholder farmers … Read more

Phd candidate receives a Frédéric Bastiat Fellowship.

By Grace Shore Banks | 09 August 2022

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

What India must Learn from Bangladesh’s attempts to curb Child Marriage

By Grace Shore Banks | 30 July 2022

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

By Grace Shore Banks | 13 July 2022

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

By Grace Shore Banks | 23 June 2022

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

By Grace Shore Banks | 22 June 2022

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

By Grace Shore Banks | 22 June 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? 

By Grace Shore Banks | 28 April 2022

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

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