by Skyla Baily | Mar 19, 2024 | Comment, News
GDI Professors Sam Hickey and Kunal Sen recently published Pathways to Development: From Politics to Power (OUP) – an open access book that provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the politics of development. The book represents a summary of a decade’s...
by Skyla Baily | Mar 18, 2024 | Comment, Research Findings
Over the last 12 months, researchers at GDI and the South Asian Network for Economic Modelling (SANEM) have been exploring some of the effects of the “twin crises” in Bangladesh: the Covid-19 pandemic and the recent rise in the cost of living. This project is part of...
by Louisa Hann | Mar 14, 2024 | Comment
Anifat Ibrahim, PhD Candidate: Development Policy and Management Last week, the world celebrated International Women’s Day (IWD) – an annual celebration of women’s social, cultural, and political achievements, as well as a chance to raise awareness of issues...
by Skyla Baily | Mar 13, 2024 | Comment, News
Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment at GDI, and James K. Boyce, University of Amherst, Massachusetts, have jointly won an inaugural prize “for their ground-breaking work in the field of social and environmental inequalities”. The growing...
by Louisa Hann | Dec 21, 2023 | Comment
On Friday, 15th December, the Global Development Institute held an online community of practice session about supporting migrant- and refugee-led organisations. Organised in recognition of International Migrants Day (Monday, 18th December), the event offered valuable...
by Louisa Hann | Dec 8, 2023 | Comment
Dhanapal Govindarajulu, University of Manchester Protecting and restoring forests is one of the cheapest and most effective options for mitigating the carbon emissions heating Earth. Since the third UN climate change summit, held in 1997 in Kyoto, Japan, different...