Researchers from the Global Development Institute will be convening 6 panels the Development Studies Association Conference. The conference runs from 19-21st June at the Open University in Milton Keynes. Find out about the panels and papers our researchers are presenting below.

Researchers from the Global Development Institute are convening 6 panels throughout the conference.

The politics of implementing social protection programmes: political competition, state capacity and policy feedback

Tom Lavers (University of Manchester), Kate Pruce (University of Manchester), Edward Ampratwum (University of Manchester) & Mohammed Ibrahim (University of Manchester)

Digital development

Richard Heeks (University of Manchester), Jaco Renken (University of Manchester), Negar Monazam Tabrizi (The University of Manchester), Shamel Azmeh (University of Manchester), Richard Duncombe (University of Manchester) & Christopher Foster (University of Manchester)

Global value chains, the state and the political economy of development

Rory Horner (University of Manchester), Khalid Nadvi (University of Manchester) &Pritish Behuria (University of Manchester)

State capacity and the politics of development in Africa

Sam Hickey (University of Manchester) & Giles Mohan (The Open University)

Dams, development & decision-making

Pon Souvannaseng (University of Manchester) & David Hulme (University of Manchester)

Environmental upgrading, trade and globalisation: implications for sustainable development 

Aarti Krishnan (University of Manchester) & Judith Krauss (University of Sheffield)

 

Our academics and PhD researchers are presenting 20 different papers during the three-day conference.

	Panel Reference	Paper
Roshan Adhikari	I3	Dams, migration, and agricultural productivity: evidence from Ghana
Edward Ampratwum	M2	The politics of LEAP implementation in Ghana: tracing pathways to uneven effectiveness
Stephanie Barrientos	H5	Gender and work in global value chains: challenges and opportunities for workers in Asian apparel
Pritish Behuria	H5	The political economy of industrialization trajectories in Uganda’s apparels sector: multi-scalar embeddedness and the pressures against industrial policy
Ralitza Dimova	I3	Dams, migration, and agricultural productivity: evidence from Ghana
Richard Duncombe	J1	The influence of agro-digital platforms on agricultural development in the Global South: towards a conceptual framework
Barnaby Dye	I3	The politics of dams: a framework
Kelechi Ekuma	E1	How do African migrant entrepreneurs navigate mainstream networks in North West England?
Bookie Ezeomah	J1	The influence of agro-digital platforms on agricultural development in the Global South: towards a conceptual framework
Sam Hickey	H4	Bureaucratic ‘pockets of effectiveness’ as windows onto the politics of state formation in Africa: comparative insights from a political settlements perspective
Rory Horner	H5	Industrial development, public health and the state in market-seeking GVCs: the case of South Africa’s pharmaceuticals
Mohammed Ibrahim	M2	The politics of social protection in Ghana: feedback effects, citizenship and state capacity
Aarti Krishnan	I5	Environmental embeddedness in GPNs: case of Kenyan horticulture farmers
Tom Lavers	I3	The politics of dams: a framework
Tom Lavers	M2	The politics of distributing social transfers in rural Ethiopia: the Productive Safety Net Programme (PSNP)
Diana Mitlin	D5	Knowledge matters
Kate Pruce	M2	The politics of implementing social protection: the case of cash transfers in Zambia
Matthew Tyce	H4	Pockets of effectiveness as hybrid forms of governance: the case of Kenya’s Central Bank
Matthew Walsham	E1	Internal migration and the Senior Citizens Grant in Uganda: intra-household dyanamics and well-being in multi-local households
Timothy Williams	M2	Social protection and state-society relations in Rwanda

 

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