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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

PhD Student Promise Frank Ejiofor Wins Cedric Smith Prize

8 April 2025

Development Studies PhD student Promise Ejiofor has won the Conflict Research Society's 2025 Cedric Smith Prize for his paper ' Gendercide and Terrorism Studies' . Promise's research explores incidents of gendercide against men and boys in Africa's Lake Chad region, arguing that the concept of gendercide should be expanded...

Dr Ilias Alami Publishes New Essay

13 March 2025

Dr Ilias Alami, in collaboration with Dr Jess DiCarlo, Prof Seth Schindler, and Dr Steve Rolf, has published a new essay in the 2025 State of Power report of the Transnational Institute. The essay examines the US-China battle for control of global networks. In this Second Cold War, geopolitical competition is no longer a...

Dr Jostein Hauge Appears on Podcast and Prominent YouTube Channel

28 February 2025

Development Studies MPhil Director Dr Jostein Hauge has recently made several media appearances to discuss recent developments in trade and international economics. Firstly, Dr Hauge appeared on the Cyrus Janssen YouTube channel to discuss China’s economic transformation and the US-China trade war. This discussion can be...

Dr Yunan Xu Publishes New Article

12 February 2025

Dr. Yunan Xu, in collaboration with Chunyu Wang, Jingzhong Ye, Sai Sam Kham, Doi Ra, Jennifer C. Franco, and Saturnino M. Borras Jr., has published a new article titled "Migrant Labour Flows and Interconnected Agrarian Transformations in Southern China" in Agriculture and Human Values . The study examines how two key land-...

Luiz Fernando Toledo 2024's fourth most awarded journalist in Brazil

3 February 2025

Congratulations to Luiz Fernando Toledo, the joint-fourth most awarded journalist in Brazil in 2024. Luiz Fernando Toledo is a Development Studies research assistant working on the project ‘The Prison Consensus: Incarceration, Investment and Inequality in Brazil’, with Professor Graham Denyer Willis, Dr Pedro Mendes...

Dr Ekin Kurtic Co-Editor of New Book

31 January 2025

Dr Ekin Kurtic has co-edited a new book titled 'Material Politics in Turkey: Infrastructure, Science, and Expertise'. This book explores the role of material entities and processes in shaping political lives in Turkey. The unifying thread of its chapters is to challenge the rendering of the material world as a mere...