Seminars
STATECRAFT IN THE SOUTH: PUBLIC POLICY SUCCESS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
ESRC Seminar
Friday 20 May 2005
We hear plenty of accounts of failure in developing countries, but what about success? In what circumstances do governments and their partners manage to produce policies that overcome initial opposition to endure and meet their aims - especially when the result is a shift in the balance of opportunities in society, however marginal, towards poor people?
We will address this question in a series of four seminars that we are running jointly with colleagues from the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), University of Sussex and the International Development Department (IDD), University of Birmingham.
The first seminar will be held on:
Friday 20 May, 10.00am – 1.00pm
Room 10.08
Institute for Development Policy and Management
University of Manchester
Harold Hankins Building
Precinct Centre, Oxford Road
Manchester M13 9QH
(Lunch will be provided)
The seminar will feature the following topics and speakers:
Policy Success: What are its Dimensions? (PDF 451KB) Presentation (PPT 118KB)
Prof Tony Bebbington (IDPM) and Dr Willy McCourt (IDPM)
Why has Microfinance been a Policy Success? Bangladesh and Beyond (PDF 465KB) Presentation (PPT 175KB)
Prof David Hulme (IDPM)
When Good Policies go Bad: What then? (PDF 378KB)
Prof Merilee Grindle (Harvard University)
Background Paper for the Seminar Series (Bebbington and McCourt Paper as above) (PDF 451KB)
The remaining three seminars were held at our partner institutes just before and just after the summer. Papers from the other seminars in the series are listed below:
Behind “Win-Win” – the Politics, Interests and Ideologies within Subsidised Housing Developments (Diana Mitlin, IDPM and IIED) (PDF 355 KB)
For more information on the seminar series, please contact:
Debra Whitehead, Events Administrator, IDPM, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, Humanities Bridgeford Street, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
Telephone: +44 (0)161 275 2821, Email: debra.whitehead@manchester.ac.uk