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Papers from 2001 annual conference

Different Poverties, Different Policies

Held at IDPM, University of Manchester, 10-12 September

10 September: Parallel Session 1

Development Management

Alan Thomas, The future of development management

Chronic Poverty - Core Issues

David Hulme, Andrew Shepherd and Karen Moore, Chronic Poverty: Meanings and Analytical Frameworks

Philip Amis, Thinking about chronic urban poverty: Centre for Chronic Poverty inception report

European Development Policy

Kunibert Raffer, Cotonou: slowly undoing Lomé's concept of partnership

Gordon Crawford, Evaluating EU promotion of human rights, democracy and good governance:  towards a participatory approach

Liberalisation:  Winners and Losers

David Dunham and Sisira Jayasuriya, Economic liberalisation and socio-political decay: a case study of Sri Lanka

Carina van Rooyen, EU-Southern Africa Trade Relations and Poverty: Implications of the Cotonou Agreement

Measuring Poverty and Poverty Reduction Policy

Philip D Osei, A critical assessment of Jamaica's national poverty eradication policy and programme

Mozaffar Qizilbash, Measurement of poverty and vulnerability in South Africa (plus table)

Regulation and Competition

Paul Cook and Yuichiro Uchida, Privatisation and economic growth in developing countries

Peter Quartey, The Impact of Regulation and Competition on SME Development

Corporate Social Responsibility - From Fair Trade to Ethical Trade?

Nuntana Udomkit, Fair trade in organic rice:  a case study from Thailand

Anne Tallontire, Challenges facing fair trade:  which way now?

Michael Hopkins, Is there a role for large-scale corporations in alleviating poverty in developing countries?

Different Poverties and Service Provision in Poor Urban Areas

Belinda Calaguas and Virginia Roaf, Access to water and sanitation by the urban poor

Orlanda Ruthven, Money Mosaics: financial choice and strategy in a West Delhi squatter settlement

James Copestake, On poverty and polarisation: the differential impact of urban microcredit

DSA Research Students Group - Poverty, Power and Politics

Anthony Edem, Development, decentralisation and the missing link


10 September: after dinner speech
Michael Edwards, Is there a 'future positive' for development studies? Confessions of a Manchester City fan

11 September: Parallel Session 2

Chronic Poverty - Labour and Migration

V Dzingirai, 'Stealing the birthright': migration dynamics in the Zambezi Valley of Zimbabwe

Ageing and Development - Intergenerational Transfers

Penny Vera-Sanso, Ageing and intergenerational relations in urban and rural South India

Agrarian Change and Land Reform

Grace Carswell, Livelihood diversification: increasing in importance or increasingly recognised?  Evidence from Southern Ethiopia

Paul Hebinck and Lothar Smith, Livelihoods and rural transformations in the Central Eastern Cape:  from production to consumption?  a case study of the two rural villages Guquka and Koloni

Philip Woodhouse, African enclosures: a default mode of development?

Regulation and Competition

Lindsay Stirton and Martin Lodge, Telecommunications reform in Jamaica: towards embedded regulatory autonomy?

Kate Bayliss, Does privatisation have a place in a poverty reduction strategy?

John Craig, Privatisation and indigenous ownership: evidence from Africa

Development Management

Colin Jacobs, Why things are never quite as simple in practice: opportunities for creating a system of social dispute resolution in Russia

Willy McCourt, and Anita Ramgutty-Wong, Limits to strategic HRM: the case of Mauritius

Different Policies for Alleviating Urban Poverty:  What We Know, What Works and Ways Forward

Sue Jones (in consultation with Nici Nelson), Urban Poverty and Livelihoods:  Practitioners Influencing Policy

Nick Devas, Urban Governance, Municipal Finance and Poverty (main paper + table 1 + table 2)


11 September: Plenary Session

Mike Aaronson, Time to Take Children Seriously

Sarah C White, From the politics of poverty to the politics of identity? Child rights and working children in Bangladesh


11 September: Parallel Session 3

Remote Rural Spatial Poverty Traps

Kate Bird, David Hulme, Karen Moore and Andrew Shepherd, Chronic Poverty and Remote Rural Areas

Jackeline Velazco, Non-farm rural activities in peasant economy: options for poverty reduction, the case of Peru

Gina Porter, Improving mobility and access for the off-road rural poor through intermediate means of transport

Tony Killick, Globalisation and the Rural Poor

Agrarian Change and Land Reform

Nitya Rao, Land records: signalling agrarian change, Jharkhand, India

Henry Bernstein, 'Agrarian Reform' after Developmentalism?

Trade, Industry and Finance

Hossein Jalilian and John Weiss, Foreign direct investment and poverty reduction:  some cross-country evidence

Daryl Collins and Nicholas Biekpe, African Financial Markets: Interdependence with and contagion from global emerging markets

Development Management

Hans Peter Ulrich, More management in development policy: reflections on observations during a three week privatisation fact finding mission in Bosnia and on other evidence from international development policy

Livelihoods Frameworks

Mariella Marzano, Rural livelihoods in Sri Lanka:  an indication of poverty?

Richard Bond and Neela Mukherjee, Livelihood Asset Status Tracking (LAST): a case from Rajasthan


12 September: Parallel Session 4

Chronic Poverty - Participation and Politics

Sam Hickey, Politicising participatory development: citizenship and exclusion in North West Cameroon

Remote Rural Spatial Poverty Traps - Policy and Programme Responses

Concern. Living on the Fringe: Community and local authority capacity building in the chars of Dimla, Bangladesh

Managing Natural Resources

Federica Misturelli and Claire Heffernan, Changing values of pastoralists in Kenya: a discourse analysis approach

Louise Nielsen and Claire Heffernan, Assessing motivation of poor pastoralists in Kenya

Everisto Mapedza and Jim Wright, An investigation of land cover change in Mafungabusi Forest, Zimbabwe, using GIS and participatory mapping

Sustainable Development:  Rio + 10

Paul Steele, Strategies for sustainable development:  can country-level strategic planning frameworks converge to achieve sustainability and eleminate poverty?

Angel Galmiche-Tejeda, Subsistence fish farming:  an alternative for sustainable development in rural Mexico

Trade, Industry and Finance

Mozammel Huq, Bangladesh industrialisation 2020: for sustained output growth, employment generation and export expansion

NGOs

Emma Mawdsley, Gina Porter and Janet Townsend, The role of the transnational community of NGDOs

Livelihoods Frameworks

Colin Murray, Livelihoods research:  some conceptual and methodological issues

Alberto Arce, Marketing expert notions of local life: development as if people really matter?

Eleanor Fisher, Knowledge processes in sustainable livelihood approaches to poverty analysis:  a case of claim-making and fishing encounters on a river in Tanzania

Social Exclusion and Demilitarisation

Rana Jawad, Critical Signposts: the problematic of citizenship in international development policy discourse on social exclusion

Wendy Olsen, Poverty and access to credit in Sri Lanka in the 1990s: a multilevel analysis


11 September: e-Development/ICTs Workshop

Saheer Al Jaghoub, International Organisations and ICTs for Development (with reference to Jordan)

Sagren Moodley and Ben Roberts, The implications of B2B e-commerce for Southern African small wooden furniture exporters

Clare O'Farrell, Information flows in rural and urban communities:  access, processes and people

Zubair Faisal Abbasi, Pro-Poor and Gender Sensitive Information Technology:  Policy and Practice

Lucky Lowe, Modelling demand in order to meet it:  can the information and knowledge management systems of the urban poor be understood and strengthened?

Gi-Soon Song, Basic telecommunications in the rural areas: a case of Laos


Taghi Doostgharin, Lone Parent and Poverty

Jez Hall, A Citizens' Budget: Update July 2001

Amita Shah, Spatial poverty traps in rural India:  an exploratory analysis of its extent and causes

Zulkuf Aydin, The new right, structural adjustment and Turkish agriculture

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