Stage 3 student Tapasya Bhandari discusses LGBTQ+ rights, the nature of Rainbow Capitalism and what we as individuals can do to help. Image credit – … Read more
Category: Impact
What’s Killing India?
Third-year students Tanya Sengupta and Tapasya Bhandari, psychology and economics undergraduates respectively, share this perspective on their home country’s current battle to raise awareness and … Read more
How the Business Start-up Journey Made My Dream a Reality
The Business Start-Up Journey is a step-by-step programme that guides students through the process of starting a business through a series of fun, interactive and practical workshops. … Read more
Kent Economists lend their expertise to parliament during the Covid crisis
Over the past few weeks, as the UK Parliament engages with the COVID-19 outbreak, they have experienced a surge in need for access to research … Read more
What are the implications of China’s economic slowdown on post-Brexit Britain?
Dr Jan-Philipp Dueber, Lecturer in Economics here at the School explains how we can better understand the slowdown in China’s economic growth and its implications … Read more
Expert comment: Much clarification needed within new Agriculture Bill
Professor Iain Fraser responds to the Government’s first reading of the new Agriculture Bill (16 Jan). Responding to the Government’s first reading of the new … Read more
Research Grant for Study on Birth Registration for Adolescent Girls in Bangladesh
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
Decision to buy organic food motivated by quality rather than animal welfare concerns
Perceptions that organic foods are higher quality and more environmentally friendly drive shoppers’ decisions to buy to a greater extent than animal welfare concerns, despite … Read more
Social Effects of the Vote of the Majority: A Field-Experiment on the Brexit-Vote
Research by the School’s Dr Fernanda Leite Lopez de Leon and Markus Bindemann was cited in an article published on 30 October in Newtral, a … Read more
Firm Dynamics, Market Power and Productivity Puzzles
Anthony Savagar, Lecturer in Macroeconomics (Principal Investigator) and Miguel Leon-Ledesma, Professor of Economics, were granted an ESRC Research Award in September 2018 for £200,000 to … Read more