IN THE district courthouse in Rangpur, crowds throng magistrates’ doorways in search of redress. Many grievances in this northern quarter of Bangladesh have to do with land. Almas, a peasant-farmer in ...

The Department of Economics at the University of Sussex Business School and the Institute for Development Studies (IDS) are hosting a public lecture in honour of Professor Michael Lipton. This event ...

Women who take the birth control pill have a smaller hypothalamus than those who do not, and report anger and depression more often, report researchers. "The mean difference in volume of hypothalamus ...

Food-storage losses for small-holder farmers in developing markets are “extremely low,” according to Michael Lipton, a development economist and research professor at the U.K.’s Sussex University. “On ...

Michael Lipton, the great development economist, died a little over a year ago. In the many tributes paid to him, his contributions to land debates were rather underplayed. Along with his 1977 book, ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Founder of the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame, Michael Lipton is remembering one West Virginia native Appalachian folk singer-songwriter who helped contribute to the success ...

Michael Lipton and Diana Hunt graciously volunteered to supervise my PhD after Pramit K Chowdhury passed away. With the initiation of Ralph Grillo, who was the then dean of the School of African and ...

The first rule of soccer is pretty obvious: don't use your hands. But soccer's signature move, heading the ball, can cause a detectable impact on players' brains. And according to a study published ...