News
02/11/2011 - Rorden Wilkinson's photograph of environmental damage in the Seychelles wins first prize in the 'Environment: Paradise Lost' category of the Manchester Science Festival 'Images of Research' competition. View the photo.
29-30/10/2011 - Rorden Wilkinson gives keynote address on WTO reform to the 10th anniversary of China’s WTO accession conference, ‘China moves up the learning curve’, Beijing (organised by RCCPB, University of Indiana/UIBE, China Institute for WTO studies). See commentary and photos of the event.
26/07/2011 - David Hulme speaks at a dialogue on 'Microfinance for poverty alleviation', Centre for Policy Dialogue, Dhaka. Download the event programme. (PDF 1.4KB). Read press coverage in The Daily Star and The Financial Express.
01/07/2011 - Armando Barrientos interviewed about perceptions of poverty by United Academics Magazine. Read the article, ‘The poor must be lazy and other things people believe about poverty’.
27/06/2011 - 'How the world thinks about poverty' - download the podcast of an interview with Armando Barrientos for Citizenreporter.org.
17/05/2011 - David Hulme speaks to the All Party Parliamentary Group on the United Nations on 'Have the MDGs made a difference?'. Download the event poster (PDF 204KB).
27/04/2011 - Guardian journalist Madeleine Bunting talks to David Hulme about BWPI’s research and database on social protection (PDF 1.3MB). Read and comment on her blog, ' Is social protection the next big idea to combat poverty?’
07/04/2011 - BWPI Executive Director David Hulme on the BBC World Service describes the aftermath of the 2009 Cyclone Aila in Bangladesh, in From Our Own Correspondent. Listen to the programme.
08/03/2011 - A Guardian online article interviews BWPI Research Fellow Amanda Berlan on her research on sustainable cocoa farming in the Dominican Republic, funded by Cadbury and Green & Black's.