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Launch: BRAC University-University of Kent collaboration.

By Grace Shore Banks | 27 November 2021

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

Lower sex-selective abortion rates in India districts with Muslim legislators

By Grace Shore Banks | 15 November 2021

New Irma Clots-Figueras research has found that sex-selective abortion is lower in India districts with a Muslim state legislator, consistent with a higher reported aversion … Read more

Kent Researchers work to improve access to Mobile Financial Services for the Poorest in Bangladesh

By gm472 | 29 October 2021

This Innovations for Poverty Action project aims to improve access to mobile phone financial services for financial transactions amongst Bangladesh’s vulnerable population. Dr Zaki Wahhaj, … Read more

New Development Economics MSc research placement opportunity in Bangladesh

By Grace Shore Banks | 11 October 2021

We launch an exciting new dimension to our Development Economics MSc: enabling students to take advantage of research expertise on economic development in South Asia … Read more

The Division of Human and Social Sciences Hybrid Research Away-Day

By Grace Shore Banks | 08 September 2021

The Schools of Economics, Politics and International Relations, Psychology, and Anthropology and Conservation met to discuss their many dynamic research groups, with a view to … Read more

Encouraging millet production and consumption through Women’s Collective Enterprises in India.

By Grace Shore Banks | 27 May 2021

Dr Zaki Wahhaj, Reader in Economics at the University of Kent, will join an international research team on a project promoting the production and consumption … Read more

How do people in India respond differently to leaders of different faiths?

By Grace Shore Banks | 02 May 2021

Irma Clots-Figueras collaborates on a paper examining policy effectiveness as a function of leader identity using a series of group experiments involving coordination games to … Read more

The Kent-Sussex Micro Seminars are back for 2021!

By Grace Shore Banks | 02 February 2021

The PhD virtual ‘Micro-Seminars’ series co-organized by the University of Sussex and the Development Economics Research Centre at the University of Kent, has returned for … Read more

Preference for male children is declining in Bangladesh

By Grace Shore Banks | 22 January 2021

Research from the School of Economics has demonstrated a decline in ‘son preference’ by women of childbearing age in Bangladesh. However, the study also shows that fertility … Read more

Kent signs first Memorandum of Understanding with Bangladesh University

By Grace Shore Banks | 16 December 2020

  On 14th December 2020, Kent signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding with North South University (NSU) in Bangladesh in an online ceremony to develop … Read more

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