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Dr Jostein Hauge Makes a Guest Appearance on the Sinica Podcast

13 June 2025

Development Studies MPhil Director Dr Jostein Hauge has made a guest appearance on the Sinica Podcast in which he discussed industrial policy in China, US-China trade relations, and growing Sinophobia. The Sinica Podcast publishes weekly episodes on Chinese current affairs. Previous guests include Adam Tooze and Jeremy...

Dr Jostein Hauge Publishes New Article

13 June 2025

New Political Economy has published an article by Development Studies MPhil Director Dr Jostein Hauge titled ' A progressive framework for green industrial policy '. Co-authored with Professor Jason Hickel, this article argues that 'existing frameworks for green industrial policy fail to address unsustainable growth in...

Dr Ilias Alami is the 2025 Aaron Rapport Teaching Prize Winner

4 June 2025

The Department of Politics and International Studies is delighted to announce the 2025 Aaron Rapport Teaching Prize for excellence in teaching has been awarded to Dr Ilias Alami . Each year, the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) awards a prize based on student feedback to the individual who has best...

CDS PhD Student Shidai Zhang Wins Elsevier Award

30 May 2025

Development Studies PhD student Shidai Zhang has won the Elsevier China Economic Review 2024 Best Paper Award for his work ‘One System, Two Shadows’: A local public finance perspective on China's shadow banking system . Shidai's paper, co-authored with Kellee Tsai, investigates the systemic financial risks posed by the...

Development Studies PhD Student Donari Yahzid Awarded Gates Scholarship

19 May 2025

Incoming Development Studies PhD Student Donari Yahzid is among the 95 outstanding scholars receiving a 2025 Gates scholarship. This scholarship will cover the full cost of Donari's studies, including university fees and maintenance. The Centre of Development Studies extends its heartiest congratulations to Donari for her...

Dr Jostein Hauge Gives Oxford Talk on 'The Global Battle for Industrial Supremacy'

15 May 2025

Development Studies MPhil Director Dr Jostein Hauge gave a talk this week at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government. The talk was entitled “World of War: The Global Battle for Industrial Supremacy”. Dr Hauge shed light on increasing economic competition between China, the United States and the European...

CDS PhD Student Biagio Rosso Receives Bank of England Internship

30 April 2025

Development Studies PhD student Biagio Rosso has received a prestigious 2025 Ph.D. Internship at the Bank of England, Monetary Policy Division, to work on a project in frontier DSGE and HANK modelling, drawing from his doctoral research on macroeconomics and development.

CDS PhD Student Biagio Rosso Awarded £5000 Research Grant

29 April 2025

Development Studies PhD student Biagio Rosso has been awarded one of the two £5000 research grants offered by King’s College London in partnership with the ETERON institute for developing a research project on the nexus between industrial policy and taxation. The grant is part of a research initiative titled “Reclaiming...

CDS PhD Student Biagio Rosso Co-Authors New Paper

28 April 2025

Development Studies PhD student Biagio Rosso has co-authored a new paper with Matteo Gatto, titled Occasionally Binding Constraints in DSGE Models with Heterogeneous Agents: a Generalised Nonlinear Framework and Applications to Inequality and Monetary Policy at the ZLB . The paper has been published in the working paper...

Dr Jostein Hauge Interviewed on Novara Media's Youtube Channel

15 April 2025

Development Studies MPhil Director Dr Jostein Hauge was recently interviewed by Michael Walker on Novara Media's YouTube channel. Dr Hauge discussed the escalating trade war between the USA and China, speaking to its global economic ramifications. Watch the interview here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAKFdyx7Agg