by developmentatmanchester | Dec 2, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Nicola Banks The Apprentice is one of my TV highlights. Watching through open fingers as Lord Alan Sugar tries to find his next business partner amongst a bunch of hapless contestants makes one thing very clear: No amount of self-belief can make you a successful...
by developmentatmanchester | Nov 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Tanja Müller Of course something was to happen for the 3oth anniversary of Band Aid, and the recent Ebola epidemic provided an opportunity too good to miss for self-obsessed Geldof and company! I will not engage here with the wider critique of the Band Aid approach...
by developmentatmanchester | Nov 21, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Róisín Read Since Bob Geldof announced he was re-recording ‘Do they know it’s Christmas’ the media has seized upon the opportunity to report on every minutiae of celebrity involvement. From whether the BBC would excuse Rita Ora from The Voice (they did), to Adele’s...
by developmentatmanchester | Nov 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Richard Heeks Pose the following to data-revolution-for-development activists: “Show me an initiative of yours that has led to scaled, sustained development outcomes”. If – as likely – they struggle, there’s a simple reason. We have not yet connected the data...
by developmentatmanchester | Nov 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Kate Evans NEW YORK—Social inequality is also part of the landscape—and so must be accounted for in landscape approaches to managing agriculture and forests, a development economics expert urges. A landscape approach is a way of taking a holistic approach to...
