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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.

Book info link: (Science, Policy and Politics of Modern Agricultural System)http://www.springer.com/environment/soil+science/book/978-94-007-7956-3Forthcoming book link -http://routledge-ny.com/books/details/9780415729703/