by Global Development Institute | Aug 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
The ongoing shift away from fossil fuels has sometimes been framed as a ‘green energy race’ among states, each competing with one another on national missions to develop and deploy renewables. Complicating this picture, various economies across both global North and...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 1, 2022 | Comment
Barnaby Joseph Dye, University of Manchester Ghana reformed its electricity sector by the book but has lurched from blackouts between 2012 and 2015 to a glut of energy which costs government about 5% of GDP. Fitch ranks the energy sector as the biggest driver of...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the first of our Shifting South series, Stephanie Barrientos talks to Khalid Nadvi and Shane Godfrey. They reflect on the project and their research into regional garment value chains, and decent work in Southern Africa. Shifting South investigated: the rise of...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Juno Ellison, Wellcome EDI Research Placement intern The past few months have witnessed a resurfacing of high-profile xenophobic migration agendas in the UK reminiscent of the Brexit campaign through the Government’s Rwanda plan, mirroring similar policies from...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 11, 2022 | Comment
Gilead Teri, PhD researcher, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester On June 21st 2022, while discussing the newly tabled budget draft a member of Tanzanian Parliament raised an underreporting discrepancy between the amount that the Minister of Finance...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dr Nicola Banks, Senior Lecturer in International Development: Urban Development and Global Urbanism Ten years ago (where has time gone?!), myself and David Hulme’s work went as ‘viral’ as an academic piece of work can go when it was picked up and lambasted by Duncan...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
Adriana Kemp, Professor of Sociology, Tel-Aviv University and Tanja Müller, Professor of Political Sociology, Global Development Institute If citizenship is about shaping cities and urban spaces at the same time shape migrants, the question becomes how the different...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Academics from the Global Development Institute are presenting papers and convening panels at the annual Development Studies Association conference taking place 6-8 July 2022. This year’s conference adopts justice and equity as central normative lenses to explore just...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 20, 2022 | Comment
Maisha Zaman, MSc in International Development: Poverty, Inequality and Development, Global Development Institute Globally, Menstrual Hygiene Management (MHM) is one of the most common terms used to describe issues associated with menstruation in policies and...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the latest episode of the GDI podcast Professor Stefan Dercon talks to Dr Sophie van Huellen. They discuss Stefan’s new book, “Gambling on Development: why some countries win and others lose”, his recent departure from the Foreign, Commonwealth...
