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Student placements as mutually beneficial partnerships
by Simon Milligan, Imogen Mullet, Rose Murota, Mathew Rupanga and Rushil Ranchod In March and April 2018, Imogen Mullett, an MSc student in International Development (2017-18), spent a month in Harare, Zimbabwe, on placement to the UK Department for International...
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Under the Shadow of Brexit: A Tipping Point for UK Aid?
by James Copestake While attention is focused on Brexit, is the UK’s role in the field of international development also being quietly but radically redefined? The headline figures suggest some continuity. The commitment to allocating 0.7% of gross national income...
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Celebrating Priscilla Wakefield: Financial Inclusion Heroine and Forgotten Feminist Economist
by Susan Johnson Priscilla Wakefield – the “Mother of Microsavings” – is credited as being the founder of savings banks (Moss 2011). She was a Quaker from Tottenham, North London, and from the Barclays family of banking fame. On 22nd...
