Events (Brooks World Poverty Institute - The University of Manchester)

Interested in what happened at a past event? Please visit our archive for information about events that we have hosted or taken part in.

3 May 2013: Seminar on ‘Governance, politics and evidence: a DFID perspective’

Speaker: Mark Robinson (Department for International Development). Co-hosted by the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre and the Institute for Development Policy and Management.

11 March 2013: Seminar on 'Politics, informality and clientelism – exploring pro-poor urban politics'

Speaker: Professor Diana Mitlin of the University of Manchester. Co-hosted by the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre.

4 March 2013: Fourth Manchester Poverty Masterclass

Professor Ravi Kanbur of Cornell University delivered a lecture on 'Poverty and distribution: twenty-five years ago and now'. The lecture was followed by an interactive session.

Download the event flyer (PDF, 368KB).

Download the Powerpoint presentations on 'Poverty and Inequality' (PDF, 95KB) and 'Equality of Opportunity' (PDF, 109KB).

28 February 2013: Open forum: 'Informal workers in a global economy'

Co-hosted by WIEGO and Capturing the Gains.

Download the event flyer for full details (PDF, 478KB).

27 February 2013: 'The challenge of urban poverty in 21st century India'

Public guest lecture by Sheela Patel, jointly hosted by BWPI and GURC.

Download event flyer PDF, 423KB).

7 December 2012: BWPI public lecture by Tendai Biti, Minister of Finance, Zimbabwe.

"From crisis to stability and inclusive growth: emerging lessons from Zimbabwe after four years of inclusive government".

Download the event flyer for full details.

26 November 2012: BWPI/IDPM/HCRI Tri-Institute Lecture

“Humanitarian Intervention and US Foreign Policy: Why Libya? Why not Syria?” by Thomas G. Weiss.

This event was chaired by Professor Keith Brown (Dean of Faculty of Humanities) and followed by a drinks reception.

Full details in the event flyer.

21 November 2012, BWPI/ESID Public Guest Lecture

"State Incapacity by Design: Lessons from Bihar." by Dr Santhosh Mathew

Full details in the event flyer

13 November 2012 - The global financial meltdown: A World Bank foot soldier’s perspective.

A BWPI public guest lecture by Dr Sam Maimbo of the World Bank.

Download the event flyer. (PDF, 511KB)

10 October 2012: Third Manchester Poverty Masterclass.

'Stages of Progress and Poverty Dynamics' by Professor Anirudh Krishna of Duke University.

Co-hosted with the University of Manchester's Institute for Development Management and Policy (IDPM).

Download the event flyer (PDF, 370KB).

2 October 2012: Seminar on 'Six decades of Palanpur: change and continuity in a North Indian village'.

With Dr Himanshu of Jawaharlal Nehru University, India.

Co-hosted with the University of Manchester's Institute for Development Management and Policy (IDPM) and the Department of Economics.

Download the event flyer (PDF, 234KB).

6 June 2012: Second Manchester Poverty Masterclass.

'Poverty orderings and stochastic dominance' by Professor Buhong Zheng, University of Denver, Colorado, and Hallsworth Visiting Professor, University of Manchester.

Co-hosted with the School of Social Sciences (Economics).

Download event flyer (PDF, 371 KB).

15 May 2012: First Manchester Poverty Masterclass.

'Measuring inequality in human development: a household-level HDI versus the IHDI'. Lecture by Professor Stephan Klasen, Göttingen University.