Title: Private
Equity Funds and the Green Climate Fund:How
Successful are Financial Institutions at Delivering Development and Managing Environmental Harm?
Date and Time: 26 June 2012, 2:00-5:00 p.m.
Venue: Case Room or Room 307, National College of Public Administration and Governance, University of the Philippines (CLCD), UP-NCPAG), Diliman, Quezon City
Contact Person: Mr. Don Jeffery Quebral, Center for Leadership, Citizenship, and Democracy (UP-NCPAG), Tel. No. 925-4109 or 981-8500 local 4158
Lecturer: Dr. Sarah Bracking is Senior Lecturer in
Politics and Development at the Institute for Development Policy and Management,
University of Manchester, England.
Dr. Bracking attended first York University
in the United Kingdom (BA
Hons Politics), then Leeds
University (MA,
International Resources and Development; PhD, Structural Adjustment, Business
and the State). She then worked as a Research Fellow at the Centre for
Democratisation Studies at Leeds University, principally on the International IDEA
State of Democracy
Project. She then moved to the University of Manchester where she is currently
a Senior Lecturer, teaching “Politics and Development and the Political Economy
of Development.” She is editor of Corruption
and Development (Palgrave, 2007) and author of Money and Power (Pluto, 2009). . Dr. Bracking is currently
completing a book on The Financialisation
of Power in Africa.
Her research interests include political
economy and political science on African States and markets, and comparative
political analysis of democracies and democratization; malign politics,
political corruption, authoritarianism and state collapse; poverty and the
political economy of impoverishment, dispossession and destitution, and development
finance and its relation to the global political economy.
Reactors: From relevant sectors, i.e., academe, business, government and NGOs
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