Working with the grain: Integrating Governance and Growth in Development Strategies (Devt@man seminar series)
| Dates: | 25 November 2014 |
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| Times: | 16:30 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Environment, Education and Development |
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| How much: | Free |
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| Who is it for: | University staff, Current University students |
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| Speaker: | Professor Brian Levy |
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Devt@man seminar series: Working with the grain: Integrating Governance and Growth in Development Strategies, Professor Brian Levy (Johns Hopkins University and University of Cape Town).
Joint seminar of ESID, chaired by Sam Hickey.
"Working with the Grain" builds on cutting-edge scholarship and the author's quarter century of practical experience to lay out an innovative "with-the-grain" approach to governance reform and development policy-making. A with the grain perspective directs attention away from "best practice," off-the-shelf blueprints towards the challenges of initiating and sustaining forward development momentum.
For more information on his book http://workingwiththegrain.com/
Brian Levy is a Senior Adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA, and also the Academic Director of the Graduate School for Development Policy and Practice at the University of Cape Town. He is a researcher on the Effective States and Inclusive Development programme at the Brooks World Poverty Institute.
Development@Manchester is the flagship seminar series bringing together scholars involved in cutting edge research on international development. It is organised by the Institute for Development Policy and Management for the wider scholarly community at the University of Manchester interested in development. Tanja Bastia and Piyawadee Rohitarachoon are convening the seminar for the 2014/2015 academic year.
The seminar series aims to facilitate dialogue and discussion, providing a space for invited leading development thinkers to share their latest research ideas with the University of Manchester’s members of staff and students in the School of Environment, Education and Development (SEED) and across different faculties. As such, it is interdisciplinary in nature, covering a broad range of topics, from environment and conservation, poverty and inequality, global development policies and institutions to social theories and historical approaches to the study of development.
Speaker
Professor Brian Levy
Organisation: Johns Hopkins University and University of Cape Town
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