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24 May, 2023
Let refugees be economic contributors: a personal perspective
MPhil in Development Studies student Matai Muon reflects on the barriers he encountered as a refugee in Kenya seeking education and employment, and argues new changes to the law there must be fully applied to enable others to fulfil their potential.
By 24 May, 2023
Let refugees be economic contributors: a personal perspective
MPhil in Development Studies student Matai Muon reflects on the barriers he encountered as a refugee in Kenya seeking education and employment, and argues new changes to the law there must be fully applied...
By 10 May, 2023
Humanitarian aid as performance?
When refugees use humanitarian assistance in rational but unexpected ways, aid agencies often fail to understand this “off script” response. Identifying the roles actors in the aid system are expected to...
By 28 Apr, 2023
Netflix’s Transatlantic is great consumer surplus for those interested in migration
Carlos Vargas-Silva gets more than he expected - including a very late night - out of a glitzy new streaming series about the predecessor to the International Rescue Committee
By 12 Apr, 2023
The environmentalism of the paid? Exploring local encounters with payments to conserve forests
As conservation agendas across the Global South increasingly rely on environmental markets, we explore how policies that pay landowners for forest protection play out in local contexts, and detect the...
By 29 Mar, 2023
Investing in human capital for post-COVID economic recovery
New modelling explores the medium-term macroeconomic impact of the COVID pandemic in low-income countries and shows the need for significant and sustained concessional external financing to reverse loss-of-...
By 22 Mar, 2023
Forging new lives: Congolese refugees as digital creators
From supporting widows to promoting comedy acts, innovative YouTube channels launched by refugees in Nairobi are helping them gain both an income and a sense of belonging
By 08 Mar, 2023
Food for thought? How Ethiopia's Productive Safety Net Programme benefits children's foundational cognitive skills
New research from Young Lives on foundational cognitive skills provides ground-breaking evidence that children from households benefitting from Ethiopia’s Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP) have better...
By 23 Feb, 2023
Southern discomfort: is there value in the concept of the Global South?
As development thinkers challenge the construct of “the South”, our research explores its layered origins and argues that it can play a constructive role in understanding and addressing global power...
By 16 Feb, 2023
What Brexit and the election of Trump can teach us about the politics of emotion
Analysis of social media posts during two recent periods of intense contestation sheds light on how political actors make use of emotion to mobilise support
By 02 Feb, 2023
Putting climate change and inequality first in teaching economics
In the latest post in our mini-series highlighting how our alumni are researching and tackling climate change, Dr Ramin Nassehi argues the need to turn economics teaching on its head and start with real-...