by GDI | Dec 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Last month, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) hosted its annual conference of the parties (COP) in Belém, Brazil. Known as COP30, this year’s climate summit took place a decade after the milestone Paris Agreement at COP21, wherein...
by GDI | Jun 26, 2025 | Comment
by Valquiria Almeida, PhD student at the Federal University of Minas Gerais Valquíria is a PhD student in Demography at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil), who recently spent six months on research leave at GDI. She is currently a researcher at the...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 26, 2018 | Comment, Policy
Dr Seth Schindler, Senior Lecturer in Urban Development & Transformation Global Development Institute Donald Trump seems intent on starting a global trade war. His recent imposition of tariffs on steel and aluminium is consistent with his rambling inaugural...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 22, 2018 | Comment
The Global Development Institute hosted a visit from the former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff yesterday (Thursday 21 June) as part of a study tour she is undertaking across the UK. Rousseff is a Brazilian economist and politician who served as the 36th President...
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...