by Global Development Institute | Dec 12, 2018 | Events, News
The Call for Papers is now open for DSA2019: Opening up Development, the annual conference of the Development Studies Association taking place at the Open University, Milton Keynes, 19-21st June. The conference theme draws attention to shifts in the global political...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 11, 2018 | Comment
Professor Phil Woodhouse gave a lecture entitled; ‘How can irrigation contribute to agricultural growth in Africa?’. The lecture was based on Prof Woodhouse’s recent research project Studying African Farmer Led Irrigation (SAFI). Listen or watch to...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 11, 2018 | Comment
While our campus based master’s programmes are regularly oversubscribed, they don’t work for everyone. If you’re in a job you love, or have family commitments – but still want to immerse yourself in postgraduate study then a distance learning programme can be an...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
Since May 2015 we have been recording the daily money transactions of up to 70 households living near a small market town in central Bangladesh. These ‘daily financial diaries’ shed light on the money-management behaviour of low-income households, described in papers...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 7, 2018 | Comment
Henning Melber, President of the EADI and Julia Schöneberg, Research Fellow at the University of Kassel Brazil as the latest example shows: right-wing populism remains on the rise, unleashing the brute force of predator capitalism under authoritarian regimes. The...