By Nick Langridge The Dasgupta Review on The Economics of Biodiversity, commissioned by the UK government, was finally released earlier this month. Led by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta, the Review claims to provide an “Independent Review on the Economics of...

By Mohd Umair Khan The World Bank recently published the Poverty and Shared Prosperity (SP) report for 2020 (see this CDS blog). In this blog, I reflect further on the adoption of SP as the second core goal for the...

By James Copestake For nearly thirty years, starting in 1990, the global incidence of extreme poverty fell almost without interruption in both absolute terms (from nearly two billion to less than one billion), and in relative terms - from more...

Professor James Copestake, Director of the Centre for Development Studies, has joined other leading research institutions in co-signing a letter from the Development Studies Association (DSA) to the UK government. The full statement reads: The UK government’s decision to reduce...