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In it to win it? How powerful political elites manipulate education resources in Ghana

11 January 2016    ESID's Abdul Gafaru Abdulai and Sam Hickey have just published their article on Ghana's political settlement

'New' approaches confront 'old' challenges in African public sector reform

11 January 2016 By Pablo Yanguas. After a bit of a delay, my article with Badru Bukenya on new approaches

Boom and bust: What's caused India's growth slowdown?

5 January 2016 By Kunal Sen For much of the 1990s and 2000s, India was seen as the ‘new kid on

David Hulme's take on the new UK Aid Strategy

ESID's CEO David Hulme gives his address as President to The Development Studies Association 16 December 2015 By David Hulme A

Spotlight on an ESID researcher: Daniel Appiah

7 December 2015 What is your background and how did you become involved in ESID? I did a degree in

LISTEN: A Podcast from our renowned researcher, Professor Lant Pritchett, on Five (Hard) Truths

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LISTEN – David Hulme on the MDGs to the SDGs: Transformation or evolution?

CEO of ESID and Global Development Institute Director Professor David Hulme spoke last week at our Global Development Seminar Series. David discussed

Good COP, bad COP: How COP21 will impact on the SDGs

1 December 2015 By Professor David Hulme The 21st COP Summit started yesterday in Paris. After almost 20 years of

Indrajit Roy reports from the Annual Conference on South Asia

30 November 2015 By Indrajit Roy Each autumn since November 1971, droves of South Asianists have flocked to Madison, capital

Why is domestic violence legislation falling short in Uganda?

25 November 2015  By Josephine Ahikire and Amon Mwiine In the current discourse on women and policymaking,  there seems to

"Agaciro" the Kinyarwanda word for dignity. Ideas of self-reliance in Rwanda

20 November 2015 By Anna Webster At ESID we're interested in the role of ideas in shaping development. To understand

Where are we up to? Ten minutes with Merilee Grindle

16 November 2015 By Anna Webster Last week, a fantastic mix of researchers from around the world came together in

Exciting research findings on how to make a difference to the lives of the urban poor in India

5 November 2015 By Professor Diana Mitlin, who leads the ESID project on urban poverty in India. This research project is

Samuel Finer: A legacy of humanist political science

30 October 2015 By Pablo Yanguas. Serendipity is an often-neglected feature of academic life. Having moved to Manchester in order

Meet Anna Webster – New ESID Communications and Uptake Officer

  30th October 2015 What's your background? I was born and brought up in Leeds and I did my degree

Spotlight on an ESID Researcher: Kojo Asante

29th October 2015  What is your background and how did you come to be at ESID? I first came to

Bringing politics and economic growth together

14 October 2015 Nicholas Waddell, a DFID Governance Adviser working on ‘Governance for Economic Development’ (G4ED) draws on ESID's work to

Angus Deaton wins the 2015 Nobel Prize for Economics

13 October 2015 By Anna Webster The renowned Princeton Economist Angus Deaton has just won the 2015 Nobel Prize for

1st Samuel Finer "Development of Government" conference

12 October 2015 By Pablo Yanguas. On 3 November,  ESID will co-host the first Samuel Finer "Development of Government" conference

Breaking the rules, breaking the game: Ideas and protest in the shifting Honduran political settlement

7 October 2015 By Sarah Hunt. One aspect of ESID’s novel approach to political settlements is to examine the role

The majority of the world's poor are in school so why aren't they learning?

30 September 2015 ESID Researcher Lant Pritchett has written for The Guardian on the need for research into rapidly improving

The political challenge of turning transnational social protection goals into effective national policy coalitions

30 September 2015 Earlier this month at the Development Studies Association meeting, ESID researchers working on our social protection project