The Department of International Development (DID), formerly known as King's International Development Institution, is an inter-disciplinary development department located within the Faculty of Social Science and Public Policy in the School of Global Affairs at

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. DID was launched in 2013 with a focus on the phenomena faced by middle-income developing countries. DID is a young, innovative, and contemporary development studies department that is the first research centre in the UK that mixes development studies and emerging markets. Its research revolves around development theory, political economy, economics,

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, management, geography, and

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. DID has students from 50 countries worldwide, who make half of all the student body. The department is a member of

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and is a premium member of Development Studies Association (DSA). It has strong links with the

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, British Academy,

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and UNDP, while its staff holds associate positions at Harvard University, UC Berkeley, Center for Global Development and the

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. Although the Department of International Development at King's College London is perhaps the youngest in the UK, it is ranked as one of the top 10 global development learning programmes in the UK and one of the top 50 world universities of development studies by the ''QS University Ranking''.

Structure

DID is a department focusing on middle income developing countries or ‘ emerging economies’ with close connections to King's College London's Global Institutes who are also housed in the School of Global Affairs, offering programmes at undergraduate and graduate level.

Notable academic staff

Andy Sumner Andy Sumner is an inter-disciplinary development economist. He has published extensively on global poverty, inequality and economic development including ten books. His research is at the interface of development studies and development economi ...

Research

DID is distinctive for its interest in rising middle income developing countries (like the BRICs) as well as in social, political, and economic phenomena in conjunction with policy related questions of those fast-growing developing countries. The department’s mission is “to explore the sources of success in emerging economies as well as understand the major development challenges they continue to face”. DID’s key areas of development are ' inclusive development' on the one hand and '

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' on the other hand. Within these two broad areas, it works on three research groups: # Political Economy & Institutions # Poverty, Inequality & Inclusive Growth # Social Justice Core research areas * History and theories of development (especially development economics, politics, and sociology) * Poverty, inequality, social justice and distribution * Gender and development * The environment, resource extraction and climate change * The role of manufacturing, industrialisation and deindustrialisation, technological change and the structure of employment * Global networks, value chains, entrepreneurship and transnational firms * Government, governance and public policy * Regional and country-level development: South, Southeast, and Northeast Asia, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East; as well as China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, and more. DID publishes a working paper series and has links to various external organisations including institutions like the UK

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and the UK

, the British Academy, the

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, the UK Development Studies Association, the US

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, UNDP, the United Nations University, the WHO, the World Bank, and various international non-governmental and research organisations.

Publications

* ''The Handbook of Latin American Politics'' : Co-edited with Deborah Yashar. London: Routledge Press, 2012 * ''Democratic Brazil Revisited''. Co-edited with Timothy J. Power. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2008. * ''Human Rights and the Millennium Development Goals'' : Edited by Malcolm Langford (Oslo), with Alicia Ely Yamin (Harvard), 2013 * ''The Future of Foreign Aid: Development Cooperation and the New Geography of Global Poverty:'' with Richard Mallett. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 * ''Intersecting Inequalities. Women and Social Policy in Peru 1990-2000''. Penn State University Press, 2010. * ''Sexual Violence During War and Peace. Gender, Power and Postconflict Justice in Peru.'' Palgrave Studies of the Americas Series, 2014. * ''Operating in Emerging Markets: A Guide to Management and Strategy in the New International Economy'', FT Press, 2013. * ''Promoting Silicon Valleys in Latin America: lessons from Costa Rica'', Routledge 2012 * ''Contesting Epidemics : How Brazil outpaced the United States in its Policy Response, what the BRICS can learn, and the Politics of Global Health Diplomacy,'' Imperial College Press, 2015 * ''Decentralization in Asia and Latin America: Towards a Comparative Inter-Disciplinary Perspective'' , with George Peterson (eds), Edward Elgar Press, 2006 * ''Informal Coalitions and Policymaking in Latin America''. Routledge: New York, 2009 * ''Debates on the Measurement of Global Poverty, with'' Sudhir Anand, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, Oxford University Press, 2010

Academics

The Department of International Development currently offers the following programmes: * BA International Development * MSc Emerging Economies and International Development * MSc Political Economy of Emerging Markets * MA Development Studies * MPhil/PhD Development Studies with reference to Emerging Markets

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