by Global Development Institute | Nov 24, 2016 | Comment
On Wednesday, 23 November, Dr Saleemul Huq from International Center for Climate Change and Development, Dhaka discussed The Magic Number: 1.5°C or 2°C Limit on Warming? And what does this actually mean for Least Developed Countries? You can find the video and...
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 | Apr 21, 2016 | Events, Uncategorized
Climate change intensifies the exclusion suffered by the poorest, but what needs to be done to support the people of Bangladesh to respond to one of the biggest environmental and development challenges of the 21st century? Dr Joanne Jordan from the GDI spent months in...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
By Julia Taub Many people often wonder what they will do when they finish their studies. I spent most of my master’s year worrying about what would be next. Would I be able to get a job? Would this master’s help? Over the last few months my questions have been...
by developmentatmanchester | Jan 6, 2016 | Research Findings, Uncategorized
By Bazoumana Ouattara, University of Manchester; Eric Strobl, École Polytechnique; Jan Vermeiren, Kinetic Analysis Corporation and Stacia Yearwood, Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility. Worryingly losses associated with tropical storms have risen considerably...