Brooks World Poverty Institute in the media

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Videos/Podcasts

30/11/2012 - David Hulme is interviewed for BBC World Service 'From our own correspondent' commenting on conditions and life in the slums of Bangladesh.
23/05/12 - Former BWPI researcher Solava Ibrahim speaks about the Egyptian revolution on Radio 5 Live.
01/04/12 - Dennis Rodgers interviewed on Swiss National Television's Geopolitis programme, commenting on the violence of Mexico's drug war.

29/02/12 - Dennis Rodgers interviewed on Indian National Television (Doordashan) talk show, Aaj Savere (This Morning). View the interview on Youtube: Part 1 and Part 2.

3/11/2011 - David Hulme makes a keynote speech on 'Effective states, inclusive growth and the challenge of governing India' . View the speech on Youtube.

27/06/2011 - Citizenreporter.org interviews Armando Barrientos about ‘How the world thinks of poverty’. Download the podcast.

07/04/2011 David Hulme on the BBC World Service describes the aftermath of the 2009 Cyclone Aila in Bangladesh, in From Our Own Correspondent.

14/09/2010 - Armando Barrientos is interviewed on the BBC World Service radio programme Newshour on 'Affording Old Age' during a special edition for 'Pensions Day'.

14/07/2010 Radio 5 Live 'Upallnight' David Hulme interviewed on 'Just Give Money to the Poor'.

21/04/2010 - David Hulme is interviewed on the BBC Radio 4 programme 'You and Yours' about his new book 'Just Give Money to the Poor', co-authored with Armando Barrientos and Joseph Hanlon.

08/02/2010 - Listen to Andrew Marr's interview with Joseph Stiglitz on BBC Radio 4 'Start the Week'.

12/12/2009 - Launch of the report 'Moving Forward in Zimbabwe - reducing poverty and promoting growth', with special guest Dr Tendai Biti, Zimbabwe Minister of Finance. BBC World Service - 12 December 2009. BBC Today Programme - 12 December 2009.
06/12/2009 - 'Is the microloan bubble about to burst?' In Business, BBC Radio 4. This programme incluces commentary from a number of people, including BWPI Honorary Senior Fellow Stuart Rutherford and Syed Hashemi of the BRAC Development Institute.
05/07/2009: Rory Brooks speaks to BBC Radio 4's World at One. Speaking of his recent visits to Bangladesh and East Africa, BWPI Benefactor Rory Brooks tells BBC Radio 4's World at One 'why funding research into poverty is just as important as the measures used to combat it'.

05/07/2008 - Professor Sir John Sulston, who won the Nobel prize for his work on the human genome project, and Professor Joseph Stiglitz, chair of BWPI, who was awarded a Nobel prize for economics, discuss whether science has become a victim of commercial funding, ahead of lectures to mark the launch of Manchester University's Institute for Science Ethics and Innovation, which Sir John will chair. Listen to the interview on Radio 4's Today programme. (MP3 file, 5MB)

14/06/2008 - Growing food and energy prices and the impact of rising inflation on the poor were the topics under discussion when BWPI chair, Professor Joseph Stiglitz was interviewed on . Radio 4's The World at One programme on 14th June 2008.

11/01/2007 - Professor Joseph Stiglitz speaks to BBC Radio 4's Today programme about economic reconstruction in Iraq, 11 January 2007. (ram file, plugin required)

Press

8/03/13 - Stephanie Barrientos writes for the Guardian Sustainable Business blog, on 'Women in cocoa production: where is the gender equity?'.
December 2012 - Capturing the Gains research featured in report by Bangladesh Brand Forum Policy Dialogue.
December 2012 - Armando Barrientos interviewed in CIPPEC Newsletter(Centro de Implementación de Políticas Públicas para la Equidad y el Crecimiento), Argentina on the challenges for extending social protection in Latin America (in Spanish).
27/10/12 - James Scott and Rorden Wilkinson write on the dangers for developing countries of plurilateral trade negotiations: 'The politics and perils of plurilaterals', Economic and Political Weekly XLVII(43), 27 October 2012.
10/09/12 - The Daily Suprobhat Bangladesh reports on the poverty dialogues on Poverty and Climate Change in Urban Bangladesh held in Dhaka and Chittagong.
22/08/12 - Non Profit Quarterly article discusses the debate over the role of NGOs in development, citing Nicola Banks and David Hulme in BWPI working paper 171.
17/08/12 - Guardian Poverty Matters blog discusses the lively debate sparked by BWPI working paper 171, The role of NGOs and civil society in development and poverty reduction by Nicola Banks and David Hulme.
25/04/12 - BWPI working paper 144, 'Neglecting the urban poor in Bangladesh: research, policy and action in the context of climate change' (by Nicola Banks, Manoj Roy and David Hulme), cited in a New Internationalist article on 'Bangladesh: the great climate exodus'.
19/02/12 - Dennis Rodgers comments on the need for Patna's urban development to be more inclusive of the poor in an article in the Hindustan Times, entitled 'Urban planning should avoid double standards for rich, poor'. See the article (PDF, 1.2MB).

13/02/12 - Welt-Sichten online journal publishes an article on social transfer schemes in developing countries by Armando Barrientos. Read the article (in German).

06/02/12 - Armando Barrientos interviewed by DWS Global Financial Institute on old age security in developed and developing countries. Read the interview.

21/12/11 - HelpAge International publishes a Pension watch Briefing by Armando Barrientos and Peter Lloyd-Sherlock: 'Pensions, poverty and wellbeing. The impact of pensions in South Africa and Brazil, a comparative study'. Download the Briefing (PDF, 1MB).

8/11/2011 - Dennis Rodgers comments on Ortega's election victory in Nicaragua in an Al Jazeera feature, 'Nicaragua's Ortega: socialism to opportunism?'.

04/10/2011 - David Hulme is one of 11 signatories of a letter to the Guardian advocating a broad coalition to to push inequality up the development agenda.

21/09/2011 - Just Give Money to the Poor by Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos, David Hulme, and Globalisation and its Discontents by Joseph Stiglitz are on The Guardian's shortlist of key development studies texts for first-year students.

27/07/2011 - David Hulme's keynote paper at a Centre for Policy Dialogue seminar is quoted extensively in the Bangladeshi press. The Financial Express features an article entitled 'Microfinance "did tremendous job in poverty alleviation despite limitations"'. Hulme is also cited in The Daily Star: 'Critics of microcredit chastised: experts hail role of microcredit in poverty reduction', and online on priyo.com: 'Politicians are the only critics of microcredit, not subscribers: Atiur'. New Age ('More transparent microfinance institutes suggested'), The Daily Sun ('Dialogue stresses more transparency for MFIs') and The New Nation ('More MFIs suggested') also carry articles on the seminar.

21/07/2011 - Solava Ibrahim's Community Pride research project featured in an article in the Salford Advertiser, entitled 'Happiness under the spotlight in survey'.

01/07/2011 - Online publication, United Academics Magazine, features an interview with Armando Barrientos in an article entitled 'The poor must be lazy and other things people believe about poverty’.

04/05/2011 - Church of Sweden blog cites Just Give Money to the Poor by Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos and David Hulme, in a discussion on social protection.

27/04/2011 - Guardian journalist Madeleine Bunting talks to David Hulme about BWPI’s research and database on social protection, and describes 'some really interesting ideas' in her blog, ‘Is social protection the next big idea to combat poverty?’

27/04/2011 - BWPI Senior Research Fellow Dennis Rodgers comments on India's Citizen’s Report on Governance and Development 2010 in an article in The Telegraph, Calcutta, entitled 'Hardly any time for your bills'.

08/03/2011 - BWPI Research Fellow Amanda Berlan's research on sustainable cocoa farming in the Dominican Republic is cited in a Guardian online article, 'Green & Black's meets Fairtrade pledge'.

07/03/2011 - Article in India Real Time puts the case for direct cash transfers, and quotes Joseph Hanlon on the ideas presented in Just Give Money to the Poor.

03/03/2011 - Article in Foreign Policy, entitled 'Spreading the wealth', presents the benefits of cash transfers and cites Just Give Money to the Poor.

02/03/2011 - Just Give Money to the Poor is cited in the Hindustan Times in an article about cash transfers in India, entitled 'The invisible hand'.

24/02/2011 - state public lecture by Rorden Wilkinson and Uma Kothari, ‘Colonial imaginaries: hidden histories’, featured in Seychelles eNews article.
09/02/2011 - CNN News interviews Joseph Stiglitz at the Johannesburg Global Poverty Summit, on how the West facilitates corruption in Africa.
24/01/2011 - David Hulme on the Millennium Development Goals cited in Medical News Today, in a report on the Johannesburg Global Poverty Summit.
23/01/2011 - Johannesburg Poverty Summit discussions on 'Global: is the Doha round delivering on poverty?' featured in Spero News.
20/01/2011 - BusinessDay quotes David Hulme speaking at the Johannesburg Global Poverty Summit on South Africa's role as a force of change on the international stage: 'SA urged: be player in global change'.
19/01/2011 - Spero News reports on Zimbabwe Finance Minister Tendai Biti's address to the Johannesburg Global Poverty Summit: 'Zimbabwe: no money for public sector wages'.
19/01/2011 - Rorden Wilkinson, speaking on global trade regulation and poverty at the Johannesburg Global Poverty Summit, is featured in BusinessDay.
19/01/2011 - Reuters Africa interviews Zimbabwe's Finance Minister, Tendai Biti, at the Johannesburg Global Poverty Summit, on the country's prospects for growth.
02/12/2010 - BWPI PhD student Julia Mase's seminar on 'Ageing, Wellbeing and Development' at Rhodes University, South Africa is reported in the South African newspaper Daily Dispatch: Tackling old age poverty – why Brazil is racing ahead of SA.

24/11/2010 - Armando Barrientos writes on 'The Boundaries of Social Protection' in a special edition of Poverty in Focus published by the International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth.

23/11/2010 - Armando Barrientos – Welfare without welfare states: Poverty reduction in the South. Essay published in 'Re-Public', an online journal focusing on innovative developments in contemporary political theory and practice.

13/11/2010 - 'Honduras: 'We are burying kids all the time'. Three young people are murdered every day in Honduras. BWPI's Dennis Rodgers comments in The Guardian on the rise of the 'maras' youth gangs that form a chain of drugs, extortion and violence.

14/10/10 - Technology is major lifeline for world’s poor, finds UN report.

23/09/10 - Richard Jolly, co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project and former Assistant Secretary-General of the UN, has recommended 'Just Give Money to the Poor', as one of the five best books on his subject - Children and the Millenium Development Goals.

21/09/10 - Just Give Money to the Poor is cited in Huffington Post blog on 'Lessons from the MDGs'.
15/09/2010 David Hulme is cited in a Financial Times report entitled 'Development: Crumbs of comfort' in advance of the MDG Summit in New York.

29/06/2010 - Aditya Chakrabortty writes about 'Just Give Money to the Poor' in the Guardian 'Comment is Free' section.

29/06/2010 - Armando Barrientos writes for the Katine blog on The Guardian website on 'Just Give Money to the Poor'.

09/02/2010 - "The Money Man: Super-economist Joseph Stiglitz on how to fix the recession."
An interview with BWPI Chair Joseph Stiglitz in The Independent, February 9, 2010. Read the interview in The Independent online.

24/02/2009: They threw billions at the bailed-out banks, but what about the poor?" - BWPI Chair Professor Joseph Stiglitz "argues that the West has failed the world's weakest again" reports Parminder Bahra of the Times. Read the full article in the TimesOnline.

7/11/2008: "Novels better at explaining world's problems than reports" The Daily Telegraph reports on paper written by BWPI and LSE researchers how best sellers can give powerful insights into aspects of poverty that are overlooked by scholars, government advisors and pundits. Read the article in The Daily Telegraph online.

11/08/2008 - BWPI Associate Director, Professor David Hulme, is cited in an article in The Independent entitled 'Population paradox: Europe's time bomb' looking at uneven demographic trends across the globe and their impact on climate change and the planet's resources.