by GDI | Apr 1, 2025 | Comment
Funded by the University of Manchester Hallsworth Fund and the British Academy Conference Fund Scroll for French, Spanish and Portuguese translations. Deadline for Photo Submission: 30th June, 2025 As migrants traverse borders, their bodies become sites of agency,...
by GDI | Feb 28, 2025 | Comment
by Dr Teklehaymanot Weldemichel Last week, I had the privilege of attending the 5th International Forest Defenders Conference in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, where I was invited to speak on the role of colonialism in shaping contemporary land rights in regions of high...
by GDI | Jan 22, 2025 | Comment
by Mahtab Uddin, PhD candidate, GDI, University of Manchester In 1954, Arthur Lewis published a paper that set out his famous Dualistic Development Model, arguing that developing economies could foster capitalist growth by employing surplus labour from the subsistence...
by GDI | May 10, 2024 | Comment
Academics from across GDI will head down to London next month to participate in the highly anticipated Development Studies Association Conference 2024, which is taking place at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, between Wednesday...
by GDI | Apr 24, 2024 | Comment
International Conference on Land Grabbing 2024, Bogotá, Colombia by Caroline Cornier Global Development Institute, University of Manchester From the 19th to the 21st of March 2024, Colombia’s prestigious Los Andes University in Bogotá, Colombia hosted...
