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...
by developmentatmanchester | Aug 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Jessica Hope, PhD student at IDPM, and a Postgraduate careers workshop. If you are working on research in a University and are thinking of joining the NGO sector this blog will help you to prepare. With the end of her PhD on the horizon, Jessica Hope co-organised a...
by developmentatmanchester | Jul 28, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Robert Watt Leverhulme Centre PhD researcher Robbie Watt attended the 2014 annual gathering of experts and practitioners working in the fields of carbon markets and climate finance at Carbon Expo in Cologne, to gain new insights into the current state of carbon...
by developmentatmanchester | Jul 22, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Khalid Nadvi image by photoeverywhere.co.uk A recent special issue in Oxford Development Studies explores how new players from the Rising Powers (mot notably China, Brazil and India) may challenge the global ‘rules of the game’ on social and environmental issues....
by developmentatmanchester | Jul 10, 2014 | Research Findings
We can use innovative data and methods to explore how human development policies effect economic growth. Juan M. Villa finds significant change from conditional cash transfer programmes on economic growth in Colombia using satellite data. The study of planned...
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...
