Read Professor Jagjit Chadha’s comments on yesterday’s Budget in the Financial Times: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a050ecc2-eb96-11e5-888e-2eadd5fbc4a4.html#axzz434hY29er  

The Eastern ARC Quantitative Social Science section at the University of Kent would like to invite academic staff and postgraduate research students to participate in … Read more

The Board of the European Association of Agricultural Economists has approved the CEAS (Centre for European Agri-Environmental Studies) proposal for a seminar on the impact of the … Read more

The School would like to congratulate Jagjit Chadha on his appointment as the Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research (NIESR), with effect from May … Read more

A new discussion paper by Francis Awuku Darko, KDPE 1603, March 2016 Abstract This paper considers the possibility of mission drift in microfinance; a situation where … Read more

Dr Alex Klein, Senior Lecturer in Economics at the School, has been appointed by the Council for Research, Development and Innovation (CRDI), an advisory body … Read more

The School of Economics wishes to extend a warm welcome to three new academic colleagues. Dr Alfred Duncan will join the School as Lecturer in … Read more

The University’s Professor Roger Vickerman has called for greater consistency in how the UK regulates its various transport modes. Speaking at a discussion on transport … Read more

A new discussion paper by Niaz Asadullah and Zaki Wahhaj, KDPE 1602, February 2016 Non-technical summary A third of women in developing countries around the world … Read more

The Centre for European Agri-Environmental Economics (CEAS) is pleased to announce a seminar by Professor Michael Burton, Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia.  Professor … Read more