Heather Marquette is Senior Lecturer in Governance in IDD. Her areas of research include comparative politics; political development; African politics; state-building and governance in difficult environments; corruption, good governance and ‘moral politics’; donor approaches to anti-corruption reform; discourses on citizenship; and applied political analysis. She directs IDD’s International Political Economy of Development programme and is … Continue reading “Religion and Attitudes Towards Corruption in a Globalised World”
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Understanding Faith-based Organisations in Pakistan
Nida Kirmani is a research fellow in the Religions and Development Research Programme. Her primary research interests are related to religion, gender and development in South Asia. This article outlines current research into the characteristics and activities of faith-based organisations in Karachi, Pakistan, carried out as one component of the Religions and Development Research Programme. … Continue reading “Understanding Faith-based Organisations in Pakistan”
Women, Religion and Attitudes Towards Corruption
Dr Heather Marquette is leading an international team researching ‘Religion, Ethics and Attitudes Towards Corruption’, with colleagues from the Centre for West African Studies, Universities of Hyderabad (India) and Ibadan (Nigeria), and the Nigerian Institute for Social and Economic Research Since 1996, when World Bank president James Wolfensohn spoke out against the ‘cancer of corruption’, … Continue reading “Women, Religion and Attitudes Towards Corruption”