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The Inexorable Evolution of Financialisation: Financial Crises in Emerging Markets, Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, December 2015The book is also part of Macmillan’s finacialisation series where leading experts such as C. Kindleberger, J. Eatwell, T. Palley, A.Gamble, P.Arestis are published and republished.Since the 2007 financial crisis, discussio…

Together with colleagues in Kenya, Cambodia and Australia, Dr. Sophie Chapman has recently published 2 articles in a special issue of the Carbon and Climate Law Review (CCLR).  The articles address key issues regarding the implementation of an international climate change policy called “REDD+” at the national level (“REDD+” stands for Reducing Emis…

Dr Terry van Gevelt and colleagues at the Department of Land Economy have published the first study linking 'traditional authority' and current levels of deforestation in Africa in the journal of Land Use Policy.University of Cambridge Press ReleaseLink to journal article

Professor Barry Rider OBE (1976), Fellow Commoner and Professor of Law, has been awarded the Order of Honour (First Class) by the Government of the Republic of China. The Gold Cluster in the Division of Justice has only been awarded on three previous occasions. The citation states this honour is bestowed by order of the President of the Republic of…

On Wednesday 8 July Dr Fennell gave a well received talk to the Global Food Security Initiative. More information about the programme can be found here. A podcast of the talk will be shortly available on the Global Food Security Initiative. Global Food Security Initiative

Members of the Central Asia Forum had a busy year taking part in various projects in India and Kazakhstan. Their activities have been documented in main newspapers. Please find below links to the press coverage.Business StandardFinancial ExpressNews HeadlineTengrinews

The students and staff at The Centre of Development Studies had the pleasure of having coffee and a chat with Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen when he visited the Centre in May 2015

Dr Ksenia Gerasimova has published an article entitled "The Importance of Sustainable Environmental Management in Central Asia: Old Legacy and New Challenges" In the Journal: Cambridge Central Asia Reviews, 2014, Vol. 1, Issue 1, pp. 27–42Publisher: Cambridge Scientific Publishers

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Here are details of the newly published article by PhD student Spencer Thompson:Link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213297X15000038Title: "Towards a social theory of the firm: Worker cooperatives reconsidered"Abstract: "This paper argues that the predominant economic theories of the firm neglect the importance of cooperation ba…

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 understanding of the "black box"…

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) and the Templeton World …

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. Official representatives fr…

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 held in Jakarta in June.Bl…

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 athttp://www.harvardindiainitiative.com/#!speakers/c187m