Global Poverty Research Group and Brooks World Poverty Institute Conference
Hulme Hall, University of Manchester
2 - 4 July 2007
POVERTY AND CAPITAL
Keynote Speakers will include:
Giovanni Arrighi, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge, UK
Francisco Ferreira, The World Bank, USA
Ben Fine, SOAS, University of London, UK
Barbara Harris-White, University of Oxford, UK
Branco Milanovic, The World Bank, USA
John Toye, University of Oxford, UK
The ESRC Global Poverty Research Group (GPRG) is a multi-disciplinary collaboration between social scientists at the Institute for Development Policy and Management (IDPM) at the University of Manchester and economists at the Centre for the Study of African Economies at the University of Oxford. Manchester University has now consolidated its position as a leading institution for the interdisciplinary study of poverty through the establishment of the Brooks World Poverty Institute (BWPI).
GPRG research to date has highlighted the dimensions of engagement with market economies as a key issue for poor people in developing countries. The interdisciplinary challenges posed by working between economics and qualitative social sciences have also emphasised the centrality of the market paradigm for analysing social dimensions of change and assessing impacts on development. Perspectives from orthodox economics at times confront the perspectives of social science, particularly as they relate to the normativity of development models and assumptions about the links between economic growth and human wellbeing, concepts of markets and capital, and ideas about what drives positive change for the poorest.
GPRG and BWPI are convening a major conference in Manchester to address these issues on the theme of POVERTY AND CAPITAL. The conference will present key findings from the GPRG research programme and explore the interface between economic models of development, theories of markets and the empirical consequences of capitalist development.
The conference is organised around three main themes FINANCE AND ECONOMICS, CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT and THE POLITICS AND INSTITUTIONALISATION OF CAPITALISM. The conference will comprise plenary and parallel sessions, with a full plenary for each major theme. The conference will feature international speakers from across social science and economics related disciplines and participants from leading development agencies and civil society organisations. The aim is to provide an interdisciplinary space for the cross fertilisation of ideas between academics, policy makers and practitioners, and between different disciplinary takes on core processes of social transformation and economy.
For details, also concerning the call for papers, visit
www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/idpm/research/events/povertyan […]
