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Alumni LinkedIn Group up and running

11 June 2015

https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Official-Cambridge-Centre-Development-St... Our official LinkedIn Alumni Group is up and running. Follow the link above to become part of our Alumni Group and send us your news to display on our Website.

PhD student Spencer Thompson publishes article on worker cooperatives

30 March 2015

Here are details of the newly published article by PhD student Spencer Thompson: Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213297X15000038 Title: "Towards a social theory of the firm: Worker cooperatives reconsidered" Abstract: "This paper argues that the predominant economic theories of the firm neglect the...

Dr Shailaja Fennell awarded major contract as the Principal Investigator on a Department for International Development commissioned series of research studies on Activity Based Learning (ABL) in India.

18 March 2015

Dr Shailaja Fennell has been awarded a major contract as the Principal Investigator on a Department for International Development commissioned series of research studies on Activity Based Learning (ABL) in India. The studies will look closely at not just what children learn, but how they learn. This includes gaining...

Dr Fennell member of the Smart Villages initiative

17 March 2015

Dr Shailaja Fennell, is a member of successful Smart Villages team, led by Sir Brian Heap and based at the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford in the UK. The Smart Villages initiative (running over 2016-19) has been granted the sum of £3 million, jointly funded by Cambridge Malaysian Education and Development Trust (CMEDT...

Central Asian Spring Festival Navroz organised by Cambridge Central Asia Forum and the Centre of Development Studies

13 March 2015

The Central Asian Spring Festival Navroz took place on 11 March 2015 at the Cambridge Guildhall. It was organized by the Cambridge Central Asia Forum and the Centre of Development Studies together with the Cambridge University Kazakh Society, Cambridge University Uzbek Society and Cambridge University Azerbaijan Society...

MPhil Alumni Sarine Arslanian (2013-2014) wrote blog post for New Cities Foundation

9 March 2015

MPhil Alumni Sarine Arslanian currently interning in Jakarta at the Centre for Public Policy Transformation (Transformasi} that recently partnered with the New Cities Foundation wrote a blog post for New Cities Foundation in preparation of this year's biggest urban development summit - the New Cities Summit - that will be...

Dr. Fennell is an invited speaker, and will be discussing 'The Economics of Rural India', at the Harvard University India Initiative to be held in New Delhi, on the 9-10th of January, 2015.

16 December 2014

This is a student initiative of current Harvard undergraduates and brings together 450 of the brightest young minds across India to create a tradition of research-focussed policy making in India. The list of speakers and topics can be found at http://www.harvardindiainitiative.com/#!speakers/c187m

Lecture by Professor Christopher Cramer Wednesday 19 November 4pm in Little Hall (Sidgwick Site)

14 November 2014

Fairtrade - narratives, facts, and agricultural wage workers: findings from research in Ethiopia and Uganda

Rural electrification and development in South Korea Paper by Terry van Gevelt

17 October 2014

Rural electrification and development in South Korea (1965 - 1979) in Energy for Sustainable Development http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S097308261400091X Abstract In fifteen years, South Korea went from providing only 12% of rural households with electricity to providing 98% of rural households with...

Official opening of the Alison Richard Building

28 July 2014

On Friday, 4 May the Alison Richard Building was formally opened by Professor Dame Alison Richard DBE.