The CBR, established in 1994, conducts interdisciplinary, evidence-based research on the determinants of sustainable economic development and growth. Current projects are examining inequality in cities, the effects of IMF structural adjustment policies, macroeconomic projections for the UK economy, social rights and poverty alleviation, law and finance in the BRICS, the role of universities in knowledge exchange, business development in the Cambridge region, and the relationship between contract forms and innovation in construction and infrastructure projects.
Privatisation of state-owned enterprises in IMF loan conditions can increase corruption through a ‘vicious circle’ of weaker institutions and increased incentives, says …
Structural conditions imposed on developing countries by the International Monetary Fund undermine their ‘state capacity’ for economic development, finds study led at …
Professor Howarth is interviewed by CBR Policy Associate Boni Sones OBE, Executive Producer of www.parliamentaryradio.com This interview was recorded on September 12th 2019 before the historic UK Supreme Court judgement that the proroguing of Parliament was “unlawful”. David Howarth, the Professor of law and public policy University of Cambridge and a former Liberal Democrat MP […]
Dr Graham Gudgin, Research Associate at the Centre for Business Research at Cambridge Judge, discusses Brexit on Canadian public television programme The …
Structural conditions imposed on developing countries by the International Monetary Fund undermine their “state capacity” for economic development, finds a study co-authored …
