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LISTEN: A podcast of our findings on public sector reform in Ghana

[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/260038371" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /] A talk delivered at GIMPA in Ghana by ESID researchers Pablo Yanguas, Abdul

ESID at the Development Studies Association Conference

    19th April 2016   The Global Development Institute are taking a lead role in convening seven panels at

Political settlements approach to extractive industries in Eastern Africa

Marja Hinfelaar 15 April 2016   In February, I presented some of our ESID research findings on the politics of natural

Spotlight on an ESID researcher: Franklin Oduro

15 April 2016 What is your educational background? I am a political scientist by training. My first degree was in

What are our findings on Ghana?

    Anna Webster 13 April 2016   So the ESID team are back in Manchester following a great week

Crises and social protection in Ethiopia: New challenges, new opportunities?

Dr Tom Lavers 12 April 2016 ESID research on the politics of social protection shows that crises have been central

The challenge of public sector reform in Ghana

By Pablo Yanguas 5 April 2016 Will legal reform be enough? How can regular people be involved in debates about effectiveness?

Live Blog – ESID's visit to Ghana

Anna Webster 5 April 2016 It's day 2 of our Ghana events and we're releasing our research findings at The Centre

Taking our research findings to Ghana

  Kojo Asante 29 March 2016   Next week we are excited to be visiting Ghana to disseminate our research

MNREGA, India's Rural Employment Guarantee – 10 years on

    22 March 2016 Professor Kunal Sen     For the tenth anniversary of  MNREGA, our Research Director, Professor

Will new governance approaches fix the public sector reform agenda?

14 March 2016 [Blog post excerpted from Yanguas & Bukenya (2016), 'New' approaches confront 'old' challengers in African public sector

Transparency on extractive industries and the problem of shrinking civic space

        11 March 2016 Anthony Bebbington   During the last week of February 2016, the Extractive Industries

Optimistic rebels vs. the anti-politics machine

29 February 2016 Chris Lyon The secret has been out the bag for a while now. Time was when the

Report from the UNU-WIDER symposium on ‘The Political Economy of Social Protection in Developing Countries’ – Mexico City

     25 February 2016 Kate Pruce   The sculpture below in Mexico City is called ‘El Ángel de la

From MDGs to SDGs: All change or no change for the global governance of 'development'?

Watch ESID CEO, David Hulme deliver the 22nd Bradford Development Lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBReFSLBeI0&feature=youtu.be

Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst

  17 February 2016   Our Ugandan researcher and journalist, Angelo Izama, on the tensions leading up to the elections

Spotlight on an ESID researcher: Indrajit Roy

17 February 2016 What is your educational background? My first degree was in history, from the University of Delhi. Then

The art of delivery

    16 February 2016  Dan Hynmovitz, Head of Insight and Learning and the Tony Blair Africa Government Initiative, share

How can poor people be brought into formalised economies?

Our Research Director Professor Kunal Sen has just published a new book: Out of the Shadows? The Informal Sector in Post-Reform

Report from The Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development

25 January 2016 Subhasish Dey In December, I was lucky enough to attend one of the most prestigious conferences on

At what point will we do something about inequality?

20 January 2016 Professor David Hulme Oxfam’s annual inequality report finds that extreme polarisation – the ownership of global assets

LISTEN: A podcast on our latest findings on social protection in Africa

15 Janaury 2016 [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/242079664" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /] Our social protection researchers Dr Tom Lavers, Professor Sam Hickey