by developmentatmanchester | Jun 11, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Eyob Balcha Gebremariam // The May 24, 2015 Ethiopian election is an archetypical political process where authoritarian developmentalism went to the poll seeking procedural democratic legitimacy for its less inclusive economic growth and severely restricted civil...
by developmentatmanchester | Apr 9, 2015 | Uncategorized
Pablo Yanguas is a Research Associate at the Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) research centre. On April 2nd ODI hosted a group of aid practitioners and public sector researchers gathered for the purpose of discussing whether the “Doing Development...
by developmentatmanchester | Mar 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Sophie King Social accountability has become an important ‘buzzword’ among development actors seeking to understand the forms of state-society relations that may be supportive of better public services. Malena and McNeil (2010: 1) define it as: ‘the broad range of...
by developmentatmanchester | Mar 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
By Sam Hickey, Sophie King and Sarah Hunt History has much to tell us about the politics of inequality, but the moral of the story depends upon the lens through which we choose to interpret its lessons. The recent DLP conference on this theme raised many of the...
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...
