By David Hulme In New York the finishing touches are being made to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which are due to replace the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). With 17 goals, 167 targets and perhaps more than 1,000 indicators those finishing touches...
By Professor Uma Kothari and Professor David Hulme The study of international development is undergoing a transformation. Its ideas, institutions, financing and political relations are being transformed by the rise of Asia, climate change and, even more importantly,...
The Effective States CEO and Executive Director of Brooks World Poverty Institute Professor David Hulme introduces this new edition of ‘Governance, Management and Development’ outlining how the debates have changed and the four key themes of the book. The last 25...
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 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 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 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...
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...
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 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...
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