by Global Development Institute | May 27, 2016 | Comment
An innovative ‘revolving motorcycle project’ set up by the Tanzanian Federation of the Urban Poor and supported by an academic at The University of Manchester is helping a group of young men in Arusha find new opportunities. Dr Nicola Banks, of the Global Development...
by Global Development Institute | May 26, 2016 | Comment
Corinna Braun-Munzinger, PhD researcher at the Global Development Institute Does it make you feel good to know that all coffee sold at the university cafeteria is fair trade certified? Did you feel less comfortable about buying that £3 T-shirt when you saw the media...
by Global Development Institute | May 24, 2016 | Comment
Gabriela Zapata Roman, PhD researcher at the Global Development Institute Last Thursday we had the visit of Secretary of State for International Development, Justine Greening, founding member and panellist of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Women’s...
by Global Development Institute | May 23, 2016 | Comment
Judith Krauss is a post-doctoral associate at the Rory and Elizabeth Brooks Doctoral College and researched cocoa sustainability for her PhD thesis. Can I ask you a question? Do you like chocolate? If your answer is ‘yes’, as for 100% of my focus-group and...
by Global Development Institute | May 18, 2016 | Comment
By Judith Krauss, Post-doctoral Associate, Global Development Institute We were privileged to welcome back to Manchester three of our own: as part of its annual postgraduate research conference, the School of Environment, Education and Development, home to the Global...
by Global Development Institute | May 16, 2016 | Comment
Chris Lyon is a PhD candidate at GDI. The working title of his thesis is Exploring a relational conception of social justice: liberals, radicals, and Brazil’s ‘new social contract’ With the world’s attention trained on Brazil ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics, its...
