by Global Development Institute | May 24, 2016 | Comment
Gabriela Zapata Roman, PhD researcher at the Global Development Institute Last Thursday we had the visit of Secretary of State for International Development, Justine Greening, founding member and panellist of the UN Secretary General’s High Level Panel on Women’s...
by Global Development Institute | May 12, 2016 | Comment
Dr Jennifer Bair, University of Colorado at Boulder, recently gave a keynote lecture as part of the Brown/Manchester Workshop on Global Production Networks and Social Upgrading: Labour and Beyond. The workshop, funded by the Watson Institute’s Brown...
by Global Development Institute | May 10, 2016 | Comment, Events
By Aarti Krishnan, PhD researcher As 8000 geographers, and a smattering of development and politics scientists descended on the streets of San Francisco for the recent Annual American Association of Geographers (the crème de la crème of geography conferences), the...
by Global Development Institute | May 9, 2016 | Comment, Policy
Global Development Institute Professors David Hulme and Kunal Sen have joined with 300 other top economists, calling on world leaders to “lift the veil of secrecy” surrounding tax havens. The letter, reproduced in full below, comes ahead of a global Anti-Corruption...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
So the Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) team are back in Manchester following a great week in Ghana. It was a hot and steamy 30 degrees in the vibrant city of Accra and during a brief power cut we realised how thankful we were for the AC! Debate and...
