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
Category: Development
New PhD virtual seminar series, co-organized by the University of Sussex and the University of Kent launches.
This week saw the launch of a new virtual ‘Micro-Seminars’ series co-organized by the University of Sussex and the University of Kent, hosted by the … Read more
Professor Iain Fraser is editor of new environmental journal, Q Open.
Professor Iain Fraser is the lead editor for a new journal – Q Open launched this summer by Oxford University Press and supported by the … Read more
Research focusing on India, post coronavirus, conducted by Amrit Amirapu and Irma Clots-Figueras has been awarded grant.
Many of our researchers at the School of Economics have been working to create solutions to the economic fallout caused by the global coronavirus pandemic. … Read more
Democratisation under Diversity: Theory and Evidence from Indonesian Communities
New discussion paper Discussion paper KDPE 2003 by Anirban Mitra (University of Kent) and Sarmistha Pal (University of Surrey), April 2020. Non-technical summary An important … Read more
Efforts to dramatically change labour laws in India may not succeed in reducing mass unemployment caused by coronavirus measures.
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
GCRF award for Development Economics Research Group
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
What does a world food shortage mean?
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
Can Child Marriage Law Change Attitudes and Behaviour? Experimental Evidence from an Information Intervention in Bangladesh
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
Celebrating groundbreaking research this International Women’s Day
“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