Making Development Inclusive: MDGs and Beyond, 26-28 January 2011
This conference at the University of Bradford, Great Britain, aims to address some of these issues by bringing
together analysts from different disciplines such as development studies, economics, international relations, management, politics, public administration, and sociology. Papers accepted for presentation at the conference fall into six thematic areas:
A. Millennium Development Goals - progress so far and challenges remaining - in Africa and elsewhere. The aim of this thematic area is to examine progress that has been made with regards to MDGs; the key constrains halting progress in priority countries; and the way forward beyond 2015. We welcome both comparative as well as individual country-based case studies especially on poverty, maternal and infant mortality, gender inequality, and education targets.
B. Micro-finance initiatives as a means to fighting poverty and promoting self-help based credit institutions. Even as MFIs are re-appearing as a policy tool, we would like to examine the role of social expenditure and targeting issues in relations to MFIs.
C. Social economics, Cost benefit analysis, methodological and informational challenges and innovations. The aim of this thematic area is to critically examine the roel of such methodologies and tools for inclusive policies.
D. Political economy of development, addressing civil conflicts, controlling corruption, promoting participation, building resilient civil society institutions for good governance.
E. Climate change, water, natural resources [such as minerals], livelihood and governance challenges.
We would like to invite proposals which examine alternative theoretical approaches or grounded case studies on these cross-cutting themes. In each case, the questions to ask are whether and how such an analysis contributes to making development inclusive.
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