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...
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...
