by developmentatmanchester | Mar 6, 2015 | Comment, Policy, Research Findings
by Brooks World Poverty Institute International Women’s Day on Sunday 8th March celebrates the economic, political and social achievements of women. Brooks World Poverty Institute research demonstrates that women play a vital role in improving global value chains – as...
by developmentatmanchester | Feb 9, 2015 | Research Findings
By Development @ Manchester, Two journal articles involving Manchester Rising Powers research have been included in a free online article collection featuring the most downloaded articles published in Routledge Social Sciences journals in 2014. New Middle-Class...
by developmentatmanchester | Jan 26, 2015 | Research Findings
By Ralitza Dimova Approximately 200 million people around the world are actively looking for work; if they formed their own country, it would be the fifth largest in the world.[i] [ii] Developing countries account for more than half of these people. The number of...
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 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 | 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...
