A new Low and Middle Income Longitudinal Population Study Directory (LMIC LPS Directory) has been developed by the Institute for Fiscal Studies on behalf of the ESRC, the Medical Research Council and the Wellcome Trust.

The MRC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) are to invest more than £2 million into twelve partnership awards that will bring together medical research and arts and humanities research to address the most important issues of public health in developing countries. Congratulations to Professor Carol Brayne for the funded partnership award on 'Pictures of ageing in Uganda; A partnership to explore demographics, phenotype and self-perception in a community of older people'.

Over 660 million people lack access to clean drinking water, with over 80% living in rural communities; these communities solely rely on external aid. Existing tests are slow, expensive and require significant training, resulting in infrequent testing, and poor dissemination to key stakeholders within the community...

This tool allows the exploration of financial flows between the UK and individual developing countries, or analyse flows for different groups of developing countries, for example UK imports from all low income countries. This analysis, which aims to promote transparency and accountability for the UK’s interactions with...