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Cambridge and Indian partners launch collaboration to transform India’s "Green Revolution”

22 Feb 2018

Researchers met in New Delhi today to formalise the launch of a programme that aims to jointly address some of India’s most pressing food security...

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United Nations Operation in Burundi (crop)

When ideas of peace meet politics of conflict

15 Feb 2017

Research by an expert in peacebuilding shows how international ideas, practices and language of conflict resolution are transformed when they meet...

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Charlotte Dixon working in Sierra Leone

Graduate, get a job … make a difference #2

13 Jan 2017

Cambridge graduates enter a wide range of careers but making a difference tops their career wish lists. In this series, inspiring graduates from the...

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Could cryptocurrency help the ‘bottom billion’?

17 Oct 2016

Many of the world’s poorest poor don’t have access to a bank account and yet depend on being able to transfer money across borders. Could digital...

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Cementing Ethiopia's progress

Opinion: Why Ethiopia is on track to become Africa’s industrial powerhouse

23 Jun 2016

Jostein Hauge and Muhammad Irfan (Centre of Development Studies) discuss Ethiopia's economics growth over the last decade.

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Let girls learn in conflict settings

09 Dec 2015

Unique threats to girls displaced by conflict prompt exceptional initiative.

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The student-led initiative will set up four projects in poor, overcrowded communities in Tanzania

Cambridge students launch development initiative in Dar es Salaam

31 Jul 2014

A pioneering initiative in the slums of Dar es Salaam aims to transform student volunteering, by kick-starting locally-run initiatives in healthcare...

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The researcher returns – with 100 books to give to the people she interviewed

18 Feb 2014

As a researcher in Uganda and Sudan, law specialist Dr Sarah Nouwen became increasingly aware of the ‘one-way’ nature of her fieldwork. She vowed...

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Cultural Healing: Sudan – a creative peace-building project that trained journalism students, civil society representatives and young people to make short films expressing their cultures and traditions.

Four steps towards ending global poverty outlined in Cambridge International Development report

28 Nov 2013

A new report released by Cambridge's Humanitarian Centre aims to set the agenda for a new round of international development goals in 2015.

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Promoting reading

Literacy, not income, key to improving public health in India

13 Jun 2013

New research suggests public health in developing countries may be better improved by reducing illiteracy rather than raising average income.

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View of hills in Kigali, Rwanda.

Cambridge students spur entrepreneurship in Rwanda

11 May 2011

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

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Oklahoma Sunset Oil Well

Benefits by the barrel

09 Apr 2011

Countries rich in oil have long been associated with the "resource-curse paradox" - a principle which states they will suffer, rather than benefit...

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