From MDGs to SDGs: All change or no change for the global governance of 'development'?
Watch ESID CEO, David Hulme deliver the 22nd Bradford Development Lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBReFSLBeI0&feature=youtu.be
Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst
17 February 2016 Our Ugandan researcher and journalist, Angelo Izama, on the tensions leading up to the elections
Spotlight on an ESID researcher: Indrajit Roy
17 February 2016 What is your educational background? My first degree was in history, from the University of Delhi. Then
The art of delivery
16 February 2016 Dan Hynmovitz, Head of Insight and Learning and the Tony Blair Africa Government Initiative, share
How can poor people be brought into formalised economies?
Our Research Director Professor Kunal Sen has just published a new book: Out of the Shadows? The Informal Sector in Post-Reform
Report from The Annual Conference on Economic Growth and Development
25 January 2016 Subhasish Dey In December, I was lucky enough to attend one of the most prestigious conferences on
At what point will we do something about inequality?
20 January 2016 Professor David Hulme Oxfam’s annual inequality report finds that extreme polarisation – the ownership of global assets
LISTEN: A podcast on our latest findings on social protection in Africa
15 Janaury 2016 [soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/242079664" params="auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&visual=true" width="100%" height="450" iframe="true" /] Our social protection researchers Dr Tom Lavers, Professor Sam Hickey
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
Dr Timothy Williams
Role Dr Timothy Williams is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education; Adjunct Professor in Global
'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
Lessons from India’s Basic Services for the Urban Poor programme
Briefing No. 13 This briefing presents research into the effectiveness of India's Basic Services for the Urban Poor (BSUP) programme. It
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
The politics of promoting gender equity in contemporary Uganda: Cases of the Domestic Violence Law and the policy on Universal Primary Education
Working paper 55 Download pdf Josephine Ahikire and Amon A. Mwiine Abstract The paper looks at the ways in which
"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