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Fairtrade - narratives, facts, and agricultural wage workers: findings from research in Ethiopia and Uganda Development StudiesLittle Hall Lecture SeriesWednesday 19 November 20144- 5.30pmLittle HallSidgwick Site between lecture block A and the Faculty of ClassicsGuest speakerProfessor Christopher CramerTitleFairtrade - narratives, facts, and a…

Rural electrification and development in South Korea (1965 - 1979) in Energy for Sustainable Developmenthttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S097308261400091XAbstractIn fifteen years, South Korea went from providing only 12% of rural households with electricity to providing 98% of rural households with electricity for lighting and produ…

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

Adaptation, Poverty and Development: The Dynamics of Subjective Well-Being Edited by David Alexander ClarkWith a Foreword by David HulmeISBN 9780230360563 Palgrave Macmillan April 2012In contrast to previous attempts to examine adaptation to climate change in developing countries, the authors focus on how individuals and broader social groups adjus…

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In addition to her position as an affiliated lecturer in Centre of Development Studies, from 1st October 2012 Dr Alexandra Winkels will be working part-time for four years as the Institute Teaching Officer and Academic Director in Development Studies for the Cambridge University Institute for Continuing Education at Madingley Hall. As part of this …

Brian Eno has a new album out. How best to explain it? By hooking up with radical economist Ha-Joon Chang to debate everything from finance to free jazz and dogs in parks. Caspar Llewellyn Smith joins in.‘Let’s find a place in between’ … Eno and Chang in conversation. Photograph: Martin Godwin for the GuardianRead More....

Dr Jasdeep Sandhu met Dr Michael Kuczynksi at High Table, Pembroke College and Dr Alexandra Winkels at the Centre of Development Studies, University of Cambridge.

Ha-Joon Chang has been voted the third most influential economist in the Prospect World Thinkers 2013 poll (overall rank 18), after Paul Krugman (overall rank 5) and Amartya Sen (overall rank 7). The full information is at:http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/world-thinkers-2013/

The Centre of Development Studies and the World Bank Institute jointly organised a colloquium on 'Examining Evidence of Institutional Change on Poverty Reduction'The focus of the colloquium was on how governments and donors, who spend billions each year on designing and implementing interventions, can create favourable institutional conditions for …

Dr. Fennell has been awarded a £200,000 contract as the Principal investigator on a DFID 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 a better understanding of the ‘black box’ of classroom pedagogy and the t…

Ha-Joon Chang has been voted no. 9 in the Prospect World Thinkers 2014 poll. The full information is at:http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/magazine/world-thinkers-2014-the-results/#.U1jjaSjmIfZ

Dr Shailaja Fennell at the Centre of Development Studies was awarded funding for a collaborative research initiative with the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras. The project will aim to understand how bottlenecks that limit Internet access for rural agricultural production and community based tourism can be removed.The UKIERI awards are part of …

Professor Barry Rider has been honoured with the award of an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list, for services to the Prevention of Economic Crime.