Improving Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth
The IPPG Programme is a shorthand name for the Research Consortium on Improving Institutions for Pro-Poor Growth, based at the Institute for Development Policy and Management, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester. The Project is funded by the Department for International Development, with £2,470,510 being awarded over five years from September 2005 until August 2010. If you would like to join the IPPG mailing list please contact the Programme Office. For details of the IPPG Advisory Group, please see the People & Partners page.
Highlights
Leonard Wantchekon Lecture
Professor Leonard Wantchekon from New York University will be lecturing on 'Expert Information, Public Deliberation and Electoral Support for Good Governance: Experimental Evidence from Benin' on Thursday, 20 November 2008 at 5pm.
Four New IPPG Discussion Papers
Four new discussion papers are now available. The first is 'Land Tenure, Farm Investments and Food Production in Malawi' by Ephraim Chirwa, Universty of Malawi; the second 'Exploring the Politics of Land Reforms in Malawi: A Case Study of the Community Based Rural Land Development Programme (CBRLDP)' by Blessings Chisinga, University of Malawi; the third 'Informal Institutions in Transition: How Vietnam's Private Sector Boomed without Legal Protection' by Liesbet Steer (ODI) and Kunal Sen; and the fourth 'Institutions and Agricultural Growth in Bolivia and New Zealand' by Steve Wiggins (ODI).
Development's Invisible Hands
Adrian Leftwich and Kunal Sen, along with Steve Wiggins (ODI) and John Morton (NRI) are convening a panel session on 'The Institutions of Development and the Development of Institutions' at the 2008 DSA conference 'Development's Helping Hands' on Saturday 8 November 2008 at Church House, Westminster, London.
What a long, strange trip it's been: reflections on India's economic growth in the twentieth century
Professor Kunal Sen is giving the British Association of South Asian Studies Annual Public Lecture, on Monday 3 November 2008, 5.30pm, entitled 'What a long, strange trip it's been: reflections on India's economic growth in the twentieth century'. The lecture will be held at The Royal Asiatic Society, 14 Stevenson Way, London NW1 2HD.