Category: Development

Parsing the labour law debate: what does the evidence say? Op-ed By Amrit Amirapu and Vidhya Soundararajan printed originally in The Hindustan Times.  In the … Read more

The Development Economics Research Group has received an award of £9,500 from the University’s GCRF Partnership Development Fund. Five members of the Development Economics Research … Read more

In response to the news of an impending world food shortage, Dr Amrit Amirapu, an economics expert at Kent, explained what this meant. He said: … Read more

Discussion paper KDPE 2001 by Amrit Amirapu (University of Kent), M Niaz Asadullah (University of Malaya) and Zaki Wahhaj (University of Kent), March 2020. Non-technical … Read more

“Gender rights, even when protected in law, may be stymied by the unwritten rules of patriarchy.” This International Women’s Day we celebrated the work of … Read more

Can the registration of adolescent girls in developing countries be accelerated disrupting child marriage? Dr Zaki Wahhaj at the School of Economics, together with Dr … Read more

Congratulations to the School’s Professor Irma Clots-Figueras who received the XVIII Banco Sabadell Foundation Award for Economic Research at an awards ceremony on 8 October … 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

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