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A policy of mass destruction

A new study reveals how a radical economic policy devised by western economists put former Soviet states on a road to bankruptcy and corruption.

Benefiting from history

A Cambridge academic's research into the final days of the Old English Poor Law has thrown up some remarkable parallels to today's welfare state - and casts new light on the 'benefits system' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Canopy commerce: forest conservation and poverty alleviation

Innovative approaches for protecting the future of Sierra Leone's Gola Forest - globally important for its biodiversity and its carbon reserves - are being developed by a collaboration of conservation agencies and University of Cambridge researchers.

Whose fault is famine? What the world failed to learn from 1840s Ireland

A new book by a Cambridge University academic revisits one of the worst famines in recorded history. The Irish Famine of the 1840s had terrible consequences: 1 million people died and several million left Ireland. Today the world is watching as millions in Africa face a similar fate: starvation in the midst of plenty. Dr David Nally's analysis of what happened in his native Ireland less than two centuries ago reveals some shocking parallels with what is happening in Africa.

Cambridge students spur entrepreneurship in Rwanda

A group of Cambridge students are spearheading an initiative to create an Entrepreneurship Week in Rwanda to help lift the country out of poverty.

Nature dialogues: whose ecosystem?

Finding the right balance between global and local demands on the natural world could help reduce poverty.

Out of poverty

Cambridge researchers are contributing to projects in Bangladesh that aim to lift 1 million people out of poverty by 2015.