“I come here to find gold. First we cut down the trees, then we burn them. Then we start digging the soil to open the pit,” says a young man in the middle of a cocoa plantation in northern Ghana’s Ashanti territory. “We have to open the pit, then once the soil has been turned, […]
The University of Manchester s research has helped development agencies to understand political contexts and design more relevant responses to local challenges.
Social protection has risen to a prominent position on the global development agenda since the turn of the millennium. Considerable attention has been devoted to debating the merits of different policy designs and the political factors shaping the adoption of different models. Yet ultimately, the ability of any social transfer programme to deliv.