by developmentatmanchester | Dec 22, 2015 | Comment, Uncategorized
Students on the MSc International Development programme travel to Uganda each year to conduct relevant research projects: In the final blog post in the series by students, Emily Olson examines if universal access to primary education means that more children are...
by developmentatmanchester | Dec 21, 2015 | Comment, Uncategorized
Students on the MSc International Development programme travel to Uganda each year to conduct relevant research projects: In the second of three posts by students, Enock Okara outlines the challenges women face in accessing compensation for oil exploration. Watch...
by developmentatmanchester | Dec 18, 2015 | Comment, Policy, Uncategorized
By Cathy Wilcock, Doctoral Researcher, Global Development Institute Socrates and a pig walk into a bar. Socrates orders a fine bottle of claret and argues for hours with the bartender about Romantic poetry. Being infuriated by the bartender’s base reading of...
by developmentatmanchester | Dec 17, 2015 | Comment, Uncategorized
By Dr. Tanja Müller I just had an article published in Africa Spectrum on Universal Rights versus Exclusionary Politics, using aspirations and despair among Eritrean refugees in Tel Aviv as the case study. This article was originally submitted to a different Journal...
by developmentatmanchester | Dec 14, 2015 | Comment, Policy, Uncategorized
The first semester of the Global Development Seminar Series was brought to a close with a fascinating lecture from Professor Ravi Kanbur last week. Professor Kanbur questioned if utilitarianism is really at odds with egalitarian ends, particularly for critical policy...
by developmentatmanchester | Nov 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Dr Ralitza Dimova Food security in Africa is challenged in three key ways – by competition between food and cash crops, by constrained access to productive resources, and through social norms. This is the upshot of my 10-minute film on agriculture in Ivory...
