by developmentatmanchester | Jun 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Rorden Wilkinson Reports that Russia is threatening to take the United States to the World Trade Organization (WTO) over sanctions imposed because of the Ukraine crisis throws the global trade body into a more geopolitical light than we have grown accustomed to in...
by developmentatmanchester | Jun 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Carl Death As the 2015 Millennium Development Goals target date looms near and the successor to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change is due to be negotiated, Dr Carl Death, senior lecturer in International Political Economy, considers the increasing focus on the...
by developmentatmanchester | Jun 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
by Sarah Hunt. Over the past year training donor agency staff in Political Economy Analysis (PEA), I have found the topic inevitably means facilitating a debate. The overt aim of training is to introduce practical tools for carrying out Political Economy Analysis....
by developmentatmanchester | Jun 16, 2014 | Events, Research Findings
A year on from the collapse of the Rana Plaza building which claimed more than 1,100 lives, Stephanie Barrientos and Rosey Hurst ask whether the world has since changed for garment workers in Bangladesh. Watch the recording of our panel discussion on this topic. Only...
by developmentatmanchester | Jun 10, 2014 | Comment, Research Findings
By Richard Heeks Around the time of the MDGs, ICT4D became the focus for a critical mass of activity; a “sidestreaming” approach that saw specialist ICT4D units arise in a number of international and national organisations. Following the 2005 World Summit on the...
