Bergen Resource Centre for International Development

Willingness to work in rural areas: Unravelling health worker job choice in Ethiopia

To attract health workers to rural areas of low income countries is crucial in order to research poor populations with basic health services. Economist Pieter Serneels will present a cohort study of Ethiopian health workers which aims to identify which factors determine their choice of urban vs rural job locations.

Pieter Serneels is a Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia, UK. He is an economist with a focus on service delivery, poverty, health and employment in low income countries.

Bør forskarar snakke med journalistar?

Lars Nyre, redaktør i Norsk medietidsskrift, havna i mediestorm på forsommaren då han rådde forskarar til å halda avstand til journalistar. Forsking er ein saktegåande aktivitet som står i eit nært forhold sine empiriske og teoretiske kjelder, medan mediene si formidling er rask aktivitet som står i eit indirekte og overfladisk forhold til forskingas føremål. Her vert det stadige omsetjingsproblem – men det finst andre offentlege kretsløp som kan dyrkast i staden for (eller i tillegg til) det journalistiske kretsløpet.

New Media - Tools for Empowering Citizens?

New Media - Tools for empowering citizens? The role of the internet and mobile technologies in the fight for Democracy.

Africa's big brother?

- Exploring South Africa's peacemaking and development role under the Mbeki and Zuma eras.

EADI IMGW Meeting 2010 Bergen Resource Centre

The EADI IMWG meeting 2010 and NorDoc 2010 will take place 22 to 24 September 2010 at Bergen Resource Centre for International Development, Bergen, Norway.

Illicit financial flows and their impacts on development: A way forward

In 1996 Raymond Baker, an American businessman based in Nigeria, received a grant for a project entitled “Flight Capital, Poverty and Free-Market Economics.”