by Global Development Institute | Jun 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
GDI Executive Director, Professor David Hulme, has written a short and accessible analysis of why and how rich nations should help poor people and poorer countries. The book is ideal for general readers and students new to Development Studies and is available from...
by Global Development Institute | May 27, 2016 | Comment
An innovative ‘revolving motorcycle project’ set up by the Tanzanian Federation of the Urban Poor and supported by an academic at The University of Manchester is helping a group of young men in Arusha find new opportunities. Dr Nicola Banks, of the Global Development...
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...
