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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 interdependence between Chines…

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 outstanding achievement an…

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 Union, and discussed the glo…

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.

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 Europe’s Industrial Policy Th…

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 series of the Post-Keynesian …

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

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 beyond its current focus on…

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 examinesthe US-China battle for control of global networks. In this Second Cold War, geopolitical competition is no longer a fight over territory but rat…

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 seen here: https://youtu.be/…

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-related labour flows—rural-to…

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 Loureiro and Dr Bruna Angotti.

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 background to or object in politi…

Dr. Yunan Xu has recently published an article in collaboration with Prof. Yiyuan Chen, titled " The agrochemical complex of China" in the Journal of Peasant Studies. This article provides an overview of existing studies and the historical development trajectories of China’s agrochemical industry.The authors propose a new framework that integrates …

Development Studies academic Dr Jostein Hauge has been cited by name in the Guardian's 19th of January editorial on development. Titled 'The Guardian view on development’s paradox: the rich benefit more than the poor', this editorial references Dr Hauge's book The Future of the Factory to discuss issues of market access and ecology. Building on Dr …