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Three BWPI PhD studentships available from September 2013. Application deadline: 17 May 2013.
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22 May 2013: BWPI round table discussion on 'Rising powers/inequalities: China and India'.
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17 April 2013: Book review by BWPI researcher Oliver Turner of Winner Take All: China's Race for Resources and What It Means for Us by D. Moyo in Journal of International Development 25(4). DOI: 10.1002/jid.2889.
BWPI 2012 Annual Report (PDF, 1.61 MB). Read highlights of our research and activities over the last year.
Cocoa production in the Dominican Republic: sustainability, challenges and opportunities: executive summary (PDF, 84KB).
Armando Barrientos and David Hulme (2013), Social protection in the post-2015 development agenda, Church of Sweden Policy Brief (PDF, 167KB).
Unicef working paper, co-authored by Armando Barrientos and Juan Miguel Villa, 'Social transfers and child protection' (April 2013).
Manoj Roy, David Hulme and Ferdous Jahan, 'Contrasting adaptation responses by squatters and low-income tenants in Khulna, Bangladesh', Environment & Urbanization, 25(1), April 2013. DOI: 10.1177/095624781347736.2.
Nicola Banks, 'Female employment in Dhaka, Bangladesh: participation, perceptions and pressures', Environment & Urbanization, 25(1), April 2013. DOI: 10.1177/0956247813477357.
Latest BWPI Working Paper:The impact of microcredit on child education: quasi-experimental evidence from rural China by Jing You and Samuel Annim (PDF,875 KB).
New worldpoverty@manchester briefing: The global food crisis and welfare. Ralitza Dimova and Patrick Monnet Gbakou.
Armando Barrientos speaks on 'Financing and the politics of social protection in low-income countries' at UNU-WIDER Recom meeting on Aid and the Social Sectors, Stockholm (13/3/2013). View the webcast (11.00-13.00).
David Hulme is interviewed for BBC World Service 'From our own correspondent' on some of the struggles faced by slum-dwellers in Bangladesh (30/11/2012).
David Hulme responds to questions such as 'What issues are most likely to concern development practitioners over the next 50 yrs?' for the IDRC-IDEAS series on YouTube.
As part of the ClimUrb research project, students filmed their innovative work with residents of low-income settlements in Dhaka, Bangladesh (13/02/2012). View trailer below.
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