by Global Development Institute | Dec 20, 2016 | Comment, Uncategorized
By Robbie Watt, Global Development Institute Less developed countries that are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and which have very low greenhouse gas emissions, make up a substantial majority of nations represented at the United Nations Framework...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
On Wednesday, 7 December, Global Development Institute Executive Director, Professor David Hulme, Dr Manoj Roy (Lancaster University) and Dr Joseph Hanlon (Open University) discussed their new book: Bangladesh Confronts Climate Change. You can find the video and...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
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by Global Development Institute | Nov 25, 2016 | Comment, Uncategorized
Throughout the month of December we will be running a GDI Advent Calendar to highlight some of the great work carried out by our academics in 2016. Each day we will bring you a different journal article, working paper or book by our researchers. At the Global...
by Global Development Institute | Sep 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
Many in Western countries think of emerging economies such as China and India as places with weak labour standards where workers are being exploited. This ignores changes on the ground in many ‘rising powers’ countries, such as China, India, South Africa and Brazil,...
by Global Development Institute | Sep 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
We asked the participants of the DSA conference this question at the GDI stand last week, and gave them four options: politics, institutions, economic growth, or something else? Although a blind vote might have made the results fairer, the winner is not particularly...
