by developmentatmanchester | Jun 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Ralitza Dimova Contrary to conventional wisdom, giving ownership rights on land to women may not be a welfare enhancing panacea in poor agricultural settings. When women have less access to complementary resources such as credit, labour or marketing...
by developmentatmanchester | Jun 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Eyob Balcha Gebremariam // The May 24, 2015 Ethiopian election is an archetypical political process where authoritarian developmentalism went to the poll seeking procedural democratic legitimacy for its less inclusive economic growth and severely restricted civil...
by developmentatmanchester | Jun 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
by Gemma Sou In March 2015, I am glad (and relieved) to report that I passed my PhD viva. Four years of grit and determination culminated in inevitable questions such as “What is your theoretical contribution?” and “Why did you choose a social constructivist...
by developmentatmanchester | May 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Tanja Bastia Last Tuesday Mo Hume came to Manchester to speak at the development@manchester seminar series. The seminar series has been running for five years and each year invites around ten internationally renown speakers on international development (see link...
by developmentatmanchester | May 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
David Hulme gave the plenary presentation at the University of Bradford’s Symposium: Global Governance and the Politics of Aid. The website for the symposium can be viewed here. Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in new...
by developmentatmanchester | Apr 29, 2015 | Uncategorized
David Hulme is Executive Director of Brooks World Poverty Institute, CEO of ESID Research Centre, and Professor of Development Studies A recent keynote I delivered at the University of Oslo asked me to think about the role of academics in society…so I mulled on...
by developmentatmanchester | Apr 13, 2015 | Uncategorized
by Khalid Nadvi and Gale Raj-Reichert Many leading global brands, like Apple and Hewlett-Packard, source components from, and have their products manufactured by, a variety of independent suppliers. These suppliers undertake production in many locations across the...
by developmentatmanchester | Apr 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Pablo Yanguas is a Research Associate at the Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) research centre. On April 2nd ODI hosted a group of aid practitioners and public sector researchers gathered for the purpose of discussing whether the “Doing Development...
by developmentatmanchester | Mar 30, 2015 | Uncategorized
David Hulme is Executive Director of Brooks World Poverty Institute, CEO of ESID Research Centre, and Professor of Development Studies Education is still considered a key strategy for reducing poverty by the poor. Universal primary education was included as a...
by developmentatmanchester | Mar 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Sophie King Social accountability has become an important ‘buzzword’ among development actors seeking to understand the forms of state-society relations that may be supportive of better public services. Malena and McNeil (2010: 1) define it as: ‘the broad range of...
