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worldpoverty@manchester
BWPI's series of global poverty-focused policy briefings, worldpoverty@manchester, aims to provide researchers and policy makers with clear, quickly accessible information on recent and ongoing BWPI research on global poverty.
The briefings will present a useful, at-a-glance summary of policy messages emerging from the research presented. Interested readers may follow links to the
more substantial bodies of research on which the briefings are based.
We also invite readers to comment on the issues presented and add to the debate, by using the link provided on each briefing.
development@manchester - research notes series
Development research at Manchester covers a range of policy-relevant domains. Our research groups address: poverty, well-being and inequality; state–society relations; environment and development; social theory and social development; urban development; and enterprise, technology, finance, innovation and management.
development@manchester aims to summarise messages emerging from research conducted within these different groups.
The Oxford Handbook of Civil Society
Edited by Michael Edwards, 2011, Oxford University Press.
This book looks at civil society in both the developed and developing worlds. Throughout, it merges theory, practice and empirical research. Read more about the book.
Why Poverty Persists: Poverty Dynamics in Asia and Africa
Edited by Bob Baulch, 2011, Edward Elgar.
This book analyses what traps people in chronic poverty, and what allows them to escape from it, using long-term panel surveys from six Asian and African countries. It is the culmination of ten years' work with the Chronic Poverty Research Centre. Read more about the book.
Moving Forward in Zimbabwe - reducing poverty and promoting growth
Download the Executive Summary of Moving Forward in Zimbabwe.
Download the Full Report (16MB).
See the Africa research area section to download the Report by chapter and for more information.
Youth Violence in Latin America: Gangs and Juvenile Justice in Perspective
Edited by Gareth A. Jones and Dennis Rodgers, 2009, Palgrave Macmillan.
BWPI Senior Research Fellow, Dennis Rodgers, is co-editor of this book on gangs and youth violence in Latin America.
'Through the juxtaposition of wide-ranging, cutting-edge studies focusing specifically on youth gangs and the dynamics of juvenile justice, this volume provides a balanced and systematic comparative overview of the reality of present-day Latin American youth violence'.
A selection of papers and books published by BWPI staff is shown below.
Books
Global Poverty: How Global Governance is Failing the Poor David Hulme (London: Routledge, September 2010).
Global Governance, Poverty and Inequality. Edited by Rorden Wilkinson, Jennifer Clapp (London: Routledge, May 2010).
Just Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution from the Global South by Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos, and David Hulme (Kumarian Press, April 2010).
Demographics, Employment and Old Age Security: Emerging Trends and Challenges in South Asia by Moneer Alam and Armando Barrientos (New Delhi: 2010).
What Works for the Poorest: Poverty Reduction Programmes for the World’s Extreme Poor. Edited by David Lawson, David Hulme, Imran Matin and Karen Moore (Rugby: Practical Action Publishing, September 2009).
'The Chronic Poverty Report 2008-2009: Escaping Poverty Traps' (2008), with the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC). Available for download from the CPRC website.
Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest (Palgrave Studies in Development). Armando Barrientos and David Hulme (London: Palgrave, 2008).
Insecurity and Welfare Regimes in Asia, Africa and Latin America: Social Policy in Development Contexts, Gough, I., Wood, G. with Barrientos, A., Bevan, P., Davis, P., Room, G. (eds) (Cambridge University Press 2008), .
Gangs of Nicaragua (PDF, 1.4MB), Rodgers, D. and Rocha, J. L. (Managua: Envio, 2008).
Reports
The Chronic Poverty Report 2008-2009: Escaping Poverty Traps. Chronic Poverty Research Centre. Summary available here. (PDF, 2MB). Full version available here. (PDF, 5MB).
Banks, N., Roy, M. and Hulme, D. (2011), 'Neglecting the urban poor in Bangladesh: research, policy and action in the context of climate change', Environment and Urbanization 23(2): 487-502.
Barrientos, A. (2011), 'Participation and earnings of older people in Argentina: nice work if you can get it?', Journal of Development Studies, 47: 1061-1079.
Barrientos, A. and Niño-Zarazúa, M. (2011), 'Financing social protection for children in crisis contexts', Development Policy Review, 29(5): 603-620.
Ibrahim, S. (2011), 'A tale of two Egypts: contrasting state-reported macro-trends with micro-voices of the poor', Third World Quarterly, 32(7).
Niño-Zarazúa, M., Barrientos, A., Hickey, S. and Hulme, D. (2011), 'Social protection in sub-Saharan Africa: getting the politics right', World Development.
Rodgers, D., Beall, J. and Kanbur, R. (2011), 'Latin American urban development into the twenty-first century: towards a renewed perspective on the city', The European Journal of Development Research (23)4.
Rodgers, D. with Jones, G. A. (2011), 'Policy arena: the World Bank's World Development Report 2011 on conflict, security and development: a critique', Journal of International Development, 23(7): 980-995.
Rodgers, D. (ed.) (2011), 'The politics of poverty and inequality', Special debate section, The European Journal of Development Research (23)4.
Scott, J. and Wilkinson, R. (2011), ‘The Poverty of the Doha Round and the least developed countries’, Third World Quarterly, 32(4).
Wilkinson, R. (2011), 'Measuring the WTO’s performance: an alternative account’, Global Policy, 2(1).
Wilkinson, R. (2011), 'Global governance, for whom? A response to Lamy’, Global Policy, 2(1).
Barrientos, A. (2010), 'Protecting capability, eradicating extreme poverty: Chile Solidario and the future of social protection', Journal of Human Development and Capabilities, 59(1/2).
Barrientos, A. (2010), 'Vulnerability and social protection in small island states: the case of Grenada', Social and Economic Studies, 11(4).
vom Hau, M. and Wilde, G. (2010), 'We have always lived here: indigenous movements, citizenship and poverty in Argentina', Journal of Development Studies, 46(7).
Hickey, S. (2010), 'The government of chronic poverty: from exclusion to citizenship?', Journal of Development Studies, 46(7).
Hulme, D. and Clark, D. (2010), 'Poverty, time and vagueness: integrating the core poverty and chronic poverty frameworks', Cambridge Journal of Economics, 34(2).
Hulme, D.and Scott, J. (2010), 'The political economy of the MDGs: retrospect and prospect for the world’s biggest promise', New Political Economy, 15(2).
Rodgers, D. (2010). 'Interview with Dennis Rodgers', International Review of the Red Cross, 92(878), June.
Rodgers, D. (2010). 'Urban violence is not (necessarily) a way of life: towards a political economy of conflict in cities', UNU-WIDER working paper No 20, Helsinki: UNU-WIDER.
Rodgers, D. (2010), 'Génèse d’un gangster? De la pandilla au cartelito au Nicaragua post-Sandiniste', Problèmes d’Amérique Latine, 76.
Rodgers, D. (2010), 'Contingent democratisation? The rise and fall of participatory budgeting in Buenos Aires', Journal of Latin American Studies, 42(1).
Barrientos, A. (2009), 'Labour markets and the (hyphenated) welfare regime in Latin America', Economy and Society, 38(1), pp. 87-108.
Barrientos, A. and C. Santibañez (2009), 'New forms of social assistance and the evolution of social protection in Latin America', Journal of Latin American Studies, 41(1).
Soifer, H. and Hau, M. vom (2008), 'Unpacking the 'strength' of the state: the utility of state infrastructural power', Studies in Comparative International Development, 43(3-4).
Hau, M. vom (2008), 'State infrastructural power and nationalism: comparative lessons from Mexico and Argentina', Studies in Comparative International Development, 43(3-4).
Rodgers, D. and Jensen, S. (2008), 'Revolutionaries, barbarians, or war machines? Gangs in Nicaragua and South Africa', Socialist Register 2009.
Rodgers, D. (2008), 'A symptom called Managua', New Left Review, 49.
Wilkinson, R., and Scott, J. (2008), 'Developing country participation in the GATT: a reassessment', World Trade Review, 7(3).
Barrientos, A., Gideon, J. and Molyneux, M. (2008), 'New developments in Latin America's social policy', Development and Change, 39(5), pp.759-774.
Lewis, D., Rodgers, D. and Woolcock, M. (2008), 'The fiction of development: literary representation as a source of authoritative knowledge', Journal of Development Studies, 44(2).
Barrientos, A. (2008), 'Ageing, poverty and public policy in developing countries: New survey evidence', in Kemp, P. (ed.), Social Protection in an Ageing World, International Studies in Social Security Series, FISS, Oxford: Intersentia.
Barrientos, A. (2008), 'Financing social protection', in Barrientos, A. and Hulme, D. (eds.), Social Protection for the Poor and Poorest, London: Palgrave.
Hulme, D. (2008), 'Identifying and measuring chronic poverty: Beyond monetary measures', in McKay, A. (ed.), The Many Dimensions of Poverty, Palgrave Macmillan.
Barrientos, A. (2008), 'Cash transfers for older people reduce poverty and inequality', in Bebbington, A. et al, (eds.), Institutional Pathways to Equity: Addressing Inequality Traps, World Bank.
Rodgers, D. (2008), 'Youth gangs as ontological assets', in Moser, C. and Dani, A. (eds.), Assets, Livelihoods and Social Policy, World Bank.
Rodgers, D. (2008), 'Searching for the time of beautiful madness: Of ruins and revolution in post-Sandinista Nicaragua', in West, H. and Raman, P. (eds.), Enduring Socialism: Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation, Bergham Books.
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