by developmentatmanchester | Sep 30, 2014 | Uncategorized
by David Hulme It looks, thankfully, like DFID has survived the brunt of austerity savings made since the financial crash of 2008. While backroom costs have been cut, the government has stuck to its commitment to earmark 0.7% of Gross National Income for Official...
by developmentatmanchester | Sep 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Dan Brockington We have seen, in the first and second parts to this series, that development NGOs have systematically organised and professionalised their work with celebrity advocates, and that this does not necessarily resonate well with British publics. What we...
by developmentatmanchester | Sep 17, 2014 | Uncategorized
Tim Jacoby and Uma Kothari, both from IDPM at the University of Manchester, have edited a special edition of the journal Progress in Development Studies which has just been published. It showcases emerging research from early career colleagues at the Institute. By Tim...
by developmentatmanchester | Sep 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Tanja R. Müller The above sentence was the message I received the other day from a Facebook-friend, together with a black and white photograph showing some African kids in a classroom with a tall, Germanic looking woman-teacher, and some German sentences on the big...
by developmentatmanchester | Sep 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Natalia Garcia-Cervantes Rising levels of violence and crime can erase the benefits of economic growth and dramatically decrease well-being. But if we see high levels of violence as a specifically urban problem, with therefore specifically urban solutions, new ways...
by developmentatmanchester | Sep 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Paola Pena The political and social scenarios of Latin America have been shaped by the coming to power of ideological Left-wing governments along with the adoption and rapid expansion of a particular type of social assistance programmes known as Conditional Cash...
by developmentatmanchester | Sep 1, 2014 | Comment, Research Findings
By Dan Brockington One of the most intriguing facts about celebrity is how little we know about how the general public respond to it. And, when you do try and find out, then one of the most intriguing things is how little notice many people appear to take of it. Yes,...
by developmentatmanchester | Aug 18, 2014 | Uncategorized
Viva Voce is a new and exciting online platform that was created by our very own IDPM PhD student, Gemma Sou. Viva Voce promotes and supports PhD students, PostDocs and Early careers researchers in the Social Sciences, by providing a platform for setting up short,...
by developmentatmanchester | Aug 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Sally Cawood In March 2014, IDPM PhD Student Sally Cawood boarded a plane to Dhaka for her first taste of urban life in the Bangladeshi capital, dubbed one of the most ‘unliveable cities’ in the world. In this blog Sally describes how this two week trip...
by developmentatmanchester | Aug 8, 2014 | Comment, Research Findings
By Daniel Brockington Celebrity is a normal part of development business these days. While we can all point to famous development advocates, I suspect that most of us do not know the extent to which development NGOs in Britain, and indeed the whole NGO sector, has...
