by Global Development Institute | Jun 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Werner Peña Read Werner Peña’s working paper ‘What are the determinants of chronic and transient poverty in El Salvador?’ The situation of being in poverty can be experienced by households with different intensities over time: some can be trapped...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Dr Eleni Sifaki, Research Associate, Global Development Institute The geography of global development in the 21st century is shifting. Horner and Hulme call for a shift in academic development studies and development policy from ‘international development’ to...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 7, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Dr Tom Gillespie, Lecturer in Poverty, Inequality & Pro-Poor Politics Rory Horner and David Hulme’s recent GDI working paper calls for a shift away from the 20th century paradigm of international development, based on the division of the world into Global North...
by Global Development Institute | May 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
On Thursday, 25th May students from the Global Development Institute had an unique opportunity to work with leading members of two of Manchester’s major NGOs. Students on the masters programmes in Management and Implementation of Development Projects, Organisational...
by Global Development Institute | May 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
On Thursday 4 May, Professor Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, gave a lecture at The University of Manchester on her latest book, Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press/Belknap 2014) You can listen to the podcast and...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
On Wednesday, 26 April, Dr Shavana Musa gave a lecture entitled ‘The Global Arms Trade and International Law: Prevention is Better than Cure’. You can watch the live stream below Find out more about the other talks in our #GDILecture series Note: This article...
