Joint Development Economics Seminar Series
Semester two, academic year 2011/2012
Organised by Economics at School of Social Sciences, Development Economics and Public Policy Cluster at IDPM and the Brooks World Poverty Institute.
Tuesday, 1300-1400, Board Room (2.016/2.017), 2nd Floor, Arthur Lewis Building (Unless otherwise specified).
14 February 2012
Speaker: Ibrahim Kasirye, Makerere University, Uganda
Title: Women empowerment and household health status: Evidence from Uganda
21 February 2012
Speaker: Barbara Ingham, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
Title: Biography in the History of Development Economics: Arthur Lewis’s Manchester Years
28 February 2012
Speaker: Bereket Kebede, University of East Anglia
Title: Envy and agricultural innovations in Ethiopia: An experimental study
6 March 2012
Speaker: Kunal Sen, IDPM, University of Manchester
Title: The Political Dynamics of Economic Growth.
13 March 2012
SoSS BWPI CCS Workshop on Poverty and Inequality in China and India (10:30-6pm), Hanson Room, Bridgeford Street Building.
20 March 2012
Speaker: Subhasish Dey, Economics, University of Manchester
Title: Evaluating India’s National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme: The Case of Birbhum District, West Bengal, India
24 April 2012
Speaker: Serena Masino, Economics, University of Manchester
Title: Macroeconomic Instability and the Incentive to Innovate - A Cross-Country Panel Data Analysis
1 May 2012
Speaker: Pushkar Maitra, Department of Economics, Monash University
Title: TBA
8 May 2012
Speaker: Johanna Rickne, Research Institute of Industrial Economics (IFN), Stockholm, Sweden
Title: TBA
15 May 2012
Speaker: Kusum Mundra, Rutgers University
Title: TBA
Semester one, academic year 2011/2012
Organised by Economics at School of Social Sciences, Development Economics and Public Policy Cluster at IDPM and the Brooks World Poverty Institute.
Tuesday, 1300-1400, Board Room (2.016/2.017), 2nd Floor, Arthur Lewis Building (Unless otherwise specified).
4 October 2011
Speaker: Prof Ranjan Ray, Monash University.
Title: Multidimensional Deprivation in China, India and Vietnam: A Comparative Study on Micro Data
11 October 2011
Speaker: Dr Charles Meth, Research Affiliate at the Southern African Labour and Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town and a Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Sociological Studies, University of Sheffield.
Title: How Not To Present Poverty Research Results - The South African Case
18 October 2011
Speaker: Dr Ralitza Dimova, IDPM, University of Manchester
Title: Ganyu labour in Malawi, Understanding rural households' labour supply strategies
25 October 2011
Speaker: Paul Mosley, University of Sheffield
Title: Rescuing Aid Effectiveness (again) - a Tax-based Approach
1 November 2011 - Reading Week - No Seminar
8 November 2011
Speaker: Dr Marc Vothknecht, Department of Development and Security German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany
Title: Group Violence, Ethnic Diversity, and Citizen Participation: Evidence from Indonesia
15 November 2011
Speaker: Dr. Susan Steiner, Department of Development and Security, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany
Title: Migration and Social Networks in Kyrgyzstan: Mutual Insurance in the Sending Communities
22 November 2011
Speaker: Dr Maurice Kugler, Senior Economist, World Bank
Title: Migration, FDI and the Margins of Trade
29 November 2011
Speaker:Katsushi Imai and Abdilahi Ali, Economics, School of Social Sciences, University of Manchester
Title: Remittances, Growth and Poverty: New Evidence from Asian Countries
6 December 2011
Speaker: Gordon Abekah, IDPM, University of Manchester
Title: The power of social institutions: Examining the effect of Women's empowerment on mother and child health
Conveners
- Dr David Lawson (IDPM), email: david.lawson@manchester.ac.uk
- Dr Xiaobing Wang (Economics), email: xiaobing.wang@manchester.ac.uk