by developmentatmanchester | Jan 6, 2016 | Research Findings, Uncategorized
By Bazoumana Ouattara, University of Manchester; Eric Strobl, École Polytechnique; Jan Vermeiren, Kinetic Analysis Corporation and Stacia Yearwood, Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility. Worryingly losses associated with tropical storms have risen considerably...
by developmentatmanchester | Dec 8, 2015 | Comment, Policy, Research Findings
By Dr Gale Raj-Reichert In recent years, there have been numerous labour violations in the global electronics industry. They include factory worker suicides, forced labour, child labour, excessive over-time, poisonings, illnesses, and deaths from chemical exposure....
by developmentatmanchester | Nov 17, 2015 | Comment, Research Findings
Royal Holloway Professor Sandra Halperin gave a compelling lecture last week at our Global Development Seminar Series. Drawing on her most recent book, Re-Envisioning Global Development: a Horizontal Perspective, Sandra critiqued Eurocentric tellings of development...
by developmentatmanchester | Oct 30, 2015 | Comment, Events, Research Findings
Semester 1 is well underway, and the first two lectures in our Global Development Seminar Series have been excellent. On 14 October we heard from IDS Director Melissa Leach on Equality, Sustainability and Security: Towards Transformations in Global Development...
by developmentatmanchester | Oct 29, 2015 | Research Findings
Kojo Asante is currently completing a PhD focussed on oil governance in Ghana, and the politics of hydrocarbons alongside our ESID research team. Find out more about Kojo’s background and current work now via this Q&A for the Effective States website. Share...
by developmentatmanchester | Sep 16, 2015 | Research Findings
Professor David Hulme is currently at the World Social Science Forum in South Africa, where he delivered the following presentation, charting the shift from the Millennium Development Goals, to the Sustainable Development Goals. You can also watch a recording of the...
