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
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
How the centralised politics of education improve access but neglect quality
8 September 2015 Researchers working on ESID's education project presented their comparative findings at the Development Studies Association meeting taking place
Video: Emerging findings on gender
30 July 2015 We recently caught up with Professor Sohela Nazneen, the Effective States gender project lead, to discuss the
Transnational capital and the political settlement of Ghana’s oil economy
7 July 2015 By Kojo Asante and Giles Mohan. How has Ghana – one of Africa’s most celebrated democracies –
High quality education for national development
28 May 2015 By David Hulme. [Reposted from Development at Manchester] Education is still considered a key strategy for reducing
What does ESID’s new gendered political settlements framework offer feminist analysis?
7 November 2014 By Sophie King. Political settlements analysis has been largely gender blind and, as Professor Sylvia Tamale noted at a
Doing Development Differently: The future is now-ish
7 November 2014 By Pablo Yanguas. Two weeks ago Harvard Kennedy School and ODI co-hosted a very particular kind of
Regional inequality and spending on education in Ghana: A political settlements approach
15 September 2014 By Pablo Yanguas. ESID's latest working paper investigates why some of Ghana's regions have had greater access
Ghana’s political settlement undermines prospects for economic transformation
13 August 2014. By Kojo Pumpuni Asante, Franklin Oduro & Awal Mohammed. On 1st August 2014, the Government of Ghana
Richard Joseph argues against development without democracy in Africa (CDD Ghana)
7 April 2014. Last month our partners at the Ghana Center for Democratic Development hosted political scientist Richard Joseph (Northwestern