by GDI | Jun 27, 2025 | Comment
by Saumik Paul (Senior Lecturer in Global Development, GDI) and Andy Sumner (Professor of International Development, KCL) Understanding inequality trends remains central to assessing both development progress and global justice. Two major dimensions—inequality...
by GDI | Apr 7, 2025 | Comment
Khalid Nadvi, Professor of International Development, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester 5 April 2025 As financial markets across the world continue to reel from the tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump on April 2nd – so-called ‘Liberation...
by GDI | Apr 11, 2024 | Comment, Research Findings
By Richard Heeks What are the implications for the global South of China’s emergence as a digital superpower? A recently-published literature review from myself and colleagues at the University of Manchester identifies seven key issues that have so far emerged…...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 18, 2018 | News, Policy, Uncategorized
Wei Liu and Heiner Janus China’s development agency released a new draft of “Measures for the Administration of Foreign Aid” on 13 November, asking for comments from the public. The measures clarify and guide the practices of all Chinese institutions engaged in...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 31, 2018 | Comment
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute In 2013 President Xi Jin Ping announced to the world China’s One Belt One Road Initiative. The Initiative set to change the landscape of global trade in this century through strategic infrastructure...
