02 July 2024 Cutting-edge steps towards a fair energy transition in Amazonia A recent ODID panel event highlighted pioneering work by the University of Campinas in Brazil in developing sustainable energy solutions.
07 June 2023 How do climate shocks impact children’s development: evidence from Vietnam Vietnam is highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and the effects are being felt by everyone, but children are at particular risk. What can the Young Lives data tell us?
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.
29 March 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-learning effects on labour productivity.
08 March 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 long-term memory and implicit learning skills.
02 February 2023 Putting climate change and inequality first in teaching economics We need to turn economics teaching on its head and start with real-world challenges, rather than abstract theories.
