The Politics of Inclusive Development: Interrogating the Evidence
13 January 2015. Among those engaged in policy and planning of development, there is growing recognition that politics and institutions matter for inclusive development. However, the specific ways in...
View ArticleWhy such a commitment to public sector reform in Rwanda?
17 February 2015 By Benjamin Chemouni. The case of public sector reforms in Rwanda is apparently exceptional. As mentioned already in the blog post presenting ESID’s Public Sector Reform project,...
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Prof Gayatri Menon
Role Gayatri Menon is an Assistant Professor at the School of Development, Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. Research Gayatri...
View ArticleThe political economy of measuring state capacity and governance: mapping...
Objective Given the immediate relevance for both the academic and the policy debate of the Post-2015 and Post-2030 Development Agendas, the project takes the state of governance and state capacity...
View ArticleThe political economy of governance measurement
9 June 2015 By David Hulme, Debora Malito, Antonio Savoia and Gaby Umbach. Most scholars and policy-makers agree that the design of rules and regulations, the effectiveness of policies and the...
View ArticleGovernance and inequality: Benchmarking and interpreting South Africa’s...
Working paper 51 Download pdf Brian Levy, Alan Hirsch and Ingrid Woolard Abstract Has South Africa’s political settlement provided a constructive platform for successfully addressing the country’s...
View Article1st 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 at the University of Manchester. This one-day event, running from 9am...
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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 the UK in 1998 to study law. I qualified as a barrister, but after two years at a solicitor’s practice I...
View ArticleThe politics of governing oil effectively: A comparative study of two new...
Working paper 54 Download pdf Sam Hickey, Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai, Angelo Izama and Giles Mohan Abstract The challenges facing developing countries with new-found natural resource wealth are generally...
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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 to join ESID in 2013, I could not have predicted that one of the very...
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Exciting research findings on how to make a difference to the lives of the...
5 November 2015 By Professor Diana Mitlin, who leads the ESID project on urban poverty in India. This research project is a unique collaboration between an action-research NGO, the Society for the...
View ArticleThe challenge of public sector reform in Ghana
By Pablo Yanguas 5 April 2016 Will legal reform be enough? How can regular people be involved in debates about effectiveness? Is there an African philosophy of the public sector that can succeed where...
View ArticleHow do political institutions affect fiscal capacity? Explaining taxation in...
Working paper 59 Download pdf Roberto Riciutti, Antonio Savoia and Kunal Sen Abstract A central aspect of institutional development in less developed economies is building tax systems capable of...
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APSA2016: Building bridges between ESID and PoliSci
Pablo Yanguas 19 August 2016 In two weeks I will be storming Philly’s city centre as part of the ESID contingent attending the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. We...
View ArticleEVENT: State-business relations in development seminar
ESID are linking up with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) for a one-day workshop at the National Council For Voluntary Organisations in London on 7 December 2016 to explore the role of state...
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World Bank: Strengthening governance top-of-mind for opinion leaders
In a recent blog for the World Bank Jing Guo, a member of the group’s Public Opinion Research Group, outlines the ways in which strengthening governance has climbed the agenda of opinion leaders in...
View ArticleDo economic institutions matter for growth episodes?
Working paper 92 Download pdf Sabyasachi Kar, Selim Raihan and Kunal Sen An increasingly large literature on the empirics of economic growth has viewed it as an ‘episodic phenomenon’. In this paper, we...
View ArticlePoverty reduction during 1990-2013: Did Millennium Development Goals adoption...
Working paper 93 Download pdf M. Niaz Asadullah and Antonio Savoia While poverty reduction remains central in the Post-2015 Agenda, its determinants remain debated in the literature, especially the...
View ArticleUnderstanding the contribution of the BSUP (JNNURM) to inclusive cities in India
Working paper 97 Download pdf Sundar Burra, Diana Mitlin and Gayatri Menon with Indu Agarwal, Preeti Banarse, Sharmila Gimonkar, Maria Lobo, Sheela Patel, Vinodkumar Rao and Monali Waghmare The Basic...
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“Outstanding” research in prestigious article collection by World Development
20 September 2018 An article in World Development based on an ESID working paper on poverty reduction and the MDGs has been selected for an article collection of five papers that have a fundamental...
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