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...
by developmentatmanchester | Oct 15, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Aarti Krishnan, PhD researcher, BWPI As IDS director Melissa Leach delivered her inspiring, wide-ranging and thought-provoking talk – Equality, sustainability, security: Towards transformations in a global development era – to start our inaugural...
by developmentatmanchester | Oct 1, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Professor David Hulme The UN has been setting goals to combat poverty for the last 50 or 60 years, but this gathered pace since 1990, following the end of the Cold War. Hundreds of different goals, from those regarding child and women’s rights to hunger and the...
by developmentatmanchester | Sep 14, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Professor Armando Barrientos Perhaps the greatest failing of the Millennium Development Goals was their focus on aid as the main financing tool for development. This ‘cosmopolitan’ perspective has often misdirected attention away from basic fiscal policy in...
by developmentatmanchester | Sep 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
By David Hulme In New York the finishing touches are being made to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which are due to replace the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). With 17 goals, 167 targets and perhaps more than 1,000 indicators those finishing touches...
by developmentatmanchester | Sep 8, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Professor Uma Kothari and Professor David Hulme The study of international development is undergoing a transformation. Its ideas, institutions, financing and political relations are being transformed by the rise of Asia, climate change and, even more importantly,...
