Conference Archive

DSA Annual Conference 2009 : Current Crises and New Opportunities



Prowse/Martin: Closing the gap between climate adaptation and poverty reduction frameworks

Achieving climate resilient agriculture and food systems in turbulent times

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Morgan and Olsen: Adequate Explanation of Unfree Labour Institutions

The Old and New Institutionalisms

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Kedia: Forming the Basis for Integration of Local Climate Governance into Development Plans for Resilient Livelihood Transformations in Bundelkhand region

Re-imagining development under climate change: urgency, politics and transformations

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Kaltenbrunner-Painceira: New Forms of External Vulnerability: Brazil in the Global Financial Crisis

BRICs: The global future?

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Brassard & Rosario: Key principles underlying the new modes of aid governance in Asia (paper)

Development Management Panel

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Brassard & Rosario: Key principles underlying the new modes of aid governance in Asia (presentation)

Development Management Panel

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Tilley: Missing the Point: Accountability and aid effectiveness in Tanzania 2000 - 2009

Development Management Panel

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Lee, Paul: Institutional dissonance and bridging: a new perspective on the relationship between religion and development (presentation)

Development Management Panel

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Canares: It's just a buzzword from above: Climate change challenge and local government indifference in The Philippines (paper)

Re-imagining development under climate change panel

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Canares: It's just a buzzword from above: Climate change challenge and local government indifference in The Philippines (presentation)

Re-imagining development under climate change panel

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Coulthard: Should we hang up our nets? Adaptation and conflict within fisheries. Insights for living with climate change (presentation)

Re-imagining development under climate change panel

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Jordan: Rethinking community resilience to climate change: Does a social capital lens help?

Re-imagining development under climate change panel

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Nakabugo: The global economic recession: rethinking "Education for All" sustainability (presentation)

The global financial crisis: Poverty reduction to 2015 and beyond

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Hossein: Security and society in five countries experiencing complex, compounc crises

The global financial crisis: Poverty reduction to 2015 and beyond

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Nakabugo: The global economic recession: rethinking "Education for All" sustainability

The global financial crisis: Poverty reduction to 2015 and beyond

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Wong: From economic meltdown to social crunch? Impact of the global economic recession on social capital building in developing countries

The global financial crisis: Poverty reduction to 2015 and beyond

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Tribe & Lafon: Report of the 'After 2015' policy forum, Brussels June 2009 (presentation)

The global financial crisis: Poverty reduction to 2015 and beyond

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Jackson: Openness, economic growth and labour migration from within Asia in times of global turndown

Migration and the Economic Downturn: Assessing the migration and developmental impacts

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Jackson: Openness, economic growth and labour migration from within Asia in times of global turndown (presentation)

Migration and the Economic Downturn: Assessing the migration and developmental impacts

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Obaapanin: To return or not to return home: African migrants in Europe in the wake of the global economic crisis

Migration and the Economic Downturn: Assessing the migration and developmental impacts



Negru: Gifts and markets: an institutionalist approach

The new and old institutionalisms in development - testing and expanding their adequacy

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Watson: Formalising the informal economy: Women's autonomous self-employment in rural South India

The new and old institutionalisms in development - testing and expanding their adequacy

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Sharma: Men's participation in the Maoist people's war in Nepal

Gender, identity and conflict panel

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Newman: From futures markets to the farm-gate: assessing the impact of the financial crisis along coffee chains

Economic crisis and commodity dependent countries

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Gabor: Coping in the subprime region: Monetary management in crisis

Transmission mechanisms of the global financial crisis on the developing world

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Gabor: Coping in the subprime region: Monetary management in crisis (presentation)

Transmission mechanisms of the global financial crisis on the developing world

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Sindzingre: The impact of the global crisis on commodity-dependent low-income countries: confirming the relevance of poverty trap?

Transmission mechanisms of the global financial crisis on the developing world

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Sindzingre: The impact of the global crisis on commodity-dependent low-income countries: confirming the relevance of poverty trap? (presentation)

Transmission mechanisms of the global financial crisis on the developing world

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Mugwagwa: Collaboration in biosafety: why should African countries worry about those that are technologically weak?

Banking on the strength of the weak can bring windfalls for innovation and development

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Mugwagwa: Collaboration in biosafety: why should African countries worry about those that are technologically weak? (presentation)

Banking on the strength of the weak can bring windfalls for innovation and development

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Hanlin & Muraguri: Social contexts can shap health technologies: fallacy or fact?

Banking on the strength of the weak can bring windfalls for innovation and development

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Kilonzo & Mugwagwa: Societal beliefs, scientific technologies and HIV/AIDs in Africa: Lessons on integrating local communities from Kenya and Zimbabwe

Banking on the strength of the weak can bring windfalls for innovation and development

This paper won the Journal of International Development Prize at the Conference. Category: Best paper submitted overall from the Conference

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Mapedza: Climate change, global economic crisis and their implications for a gendered livestock-water productivity: reflections from Ethiopia and Zimbabwe

Achieving climate-resilient agriculture and food systems in turbulent times

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Obeng: Environmental variability and vulnerable livelihoods and food systems in marginal communities in Northern Ghana

Achieving climate-resilient agriculture and food systems in turbulent times

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Mogaka: Food or Jatropha for fuel production: A cost benefit analysis of Jatropha curcas production in Kwale District, Kenya

Achieving climate-resilient agriculture and food systems in turbulent times

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Lee, Heejin: Dilemmas facing an emerging donor: Challenges and changes to South Korea's ODA

Aid, Crisis and Finance

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Santipitaksakul: Opportunities for development during global recession: Outward FDI from emerging economies to development world: Win-win strategy

Aid, Crisis and Finance

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Orkin: Child work and schooling in rural Ethiopia

Children and young people in a changing world

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Porter: 'youthscapes' and escapes in rural Africa: child work, education and livelihood trajectories in Ghana, Malawi and South Africa

Children and young people in a changing world

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Padikkal: Towards sustainable water sharing: An investigation of Parambikulam Aliyar project, India

Sustainable management of natural resources - water

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Vadivelu: Evolution of property right regimes in the groundwater economy of India - theoretical and empirical constrants on moving from an open access to common property regime

Sustainable management of natural resources - water

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Agbaje: Whose priorities? Evaluating objectives of participatory development in the context of household energy projects in Africa

Sustainable management of natural resources - energy

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Cash: Managing oil revenues in Chad: Examining state-civil society relations and the impact on development

Sustainable management of natural resources - energy

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Clancy: Late developers: gender mainstreaming in the energy sector

Challenges for gender analysis

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Ramachandran: Resolving the poverty-gender-energy-nexus by stakeholder engagement

Challenges for gender analysis

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Ntsama: Gender, agricultural crisis, innovatory choices and profitability in maize cultivation in Cameroon

Challenges for gender analysis

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Ifill: Indigenous challenge to liberal capitalist democracy in Guyana

Constructing political movements

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Purdekova: Beyone de-ethnicization on post-genocide Rwanda: deconstruction of identity discourse, reconstruction of a political community

Constructing political movements

This paper won the prize for the best PhD Bursary paper submitted, with thanks to the UK Department for International Development for sponsoring all the bursary awards and this prize.

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Sesan: technology, social entrepreneurs and the global crisis

Shaping development ideas and practices

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Cameron et al: Deconstructing national perspectives on the 2009 London G20 meeting: how far is the crisis idealogically global?

Shaping development ideas and practices

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Jakimow: North Indian NGDOs in the 'information age': Assessing the opportunities of information and knowledge flows in contemporary development

Shaping development ideas and practices

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de Haan: Can the BRICs regenerate capitalism? China's responses to the crisis and global implications

BRICs: The global future?

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Kumar Dash: Global financial crisis and the Stock Market in India

BRICs: The global future?

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Jaspe: Lula da Silva's Brazil: a genuine 'third way' and NEM for the Latin American continent?

BRICs: The global future?

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Kalebe-Nyamongo: Self interest vs altruism: Malawian elites and poverty reduction

Africa: Identity, elites and clientalism

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Willott: Factionalism in an interface bureaucracy: the Nigerian higher education system

Africa: Identity, elites and clientalism

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Lang: The potential impact of the global economic downturn on people with disabilities in developing countries

Inequality and inclusion

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Ehrhardt: Traditions for peace: informal organisations and horizontal inequalities in Kano, Nigeria

Inequality and inclusion

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