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Agricultural policy reform after Brexit

By tjg | 17 October 2019

What can we learn from Australia and New Zealand about agricultural policy reform after Brexit? This is an excerpt from an article by Professor Iain Fraser … Read more

Third Kent Workshop on Networks in Economics

By tjg | 21 September 2019

The third Kent Workshop on Networks in Economics took place in the Kennedy Building at the University of Kent on Friday 20 September 2019. The … Read more

Corruption among India’s factory inspectors makes labour regulation costly

By tjg | 27 August 2019

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

Irma awarded 18th Banco Sabadell Foundation Award for Economic Research

By tjg | 04 July 2019

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

Multi-million pound bee project gets green light from EU

By tjg | 25 June 2019

A NEW project that aims to reverse the declines of wild pollinators is set to receive a multi-million pound investment from the EU’s North Sea Region Interreg … Read more

Alex Klein’s research cited in The Wall Street Journal

By tjg | 18 June 2019

Research by the School’s Dr Alex Klein was cited in an article published in the The Wall Street Journal on 9 June. The article entitled ‘The South’s Economy … Read more

Labelled loans and sanitation investments

By cm894 | 17 May 2019

Dr Bansi Malde co-wrote a blog post on her research into sanitation in India, which featured in the Ideas for India blog. Rural Indian households report … Read more

40th anniversary of Tony Thirlwall’s influential paper

By cm894 | 08 May 2019

2019 marks the 40th anniversary of Tony Thirlwall’s influential paper ‘The Balance of Payments Constraint as an Explanation of International Growth Rate Differences’ published in … Read more

The cost of labour regulations in India

By cm894 | 18 April 2019

A working paper by Dr Amrit Amirapu (University of Kent) and Dr Michael Gechter (Pennsylvania State University) has been featured on VoxEU. ‘We inform the … Read more

Expert comment: UK economy grows but labour productivity continues to stagnate

By tjg | 15 April 2019

Professor Miguel Leon-Ledesma from the School of Economics notes that despite a small rise in UK GDP there are areas of concern, not least stagnating … Read more

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