by Global Development Institute | Apr 14, 2016 | Events, Research Findings
By Judith Krauss What is politics? A loaded question which might draw any number of diverse and partly conflicting answers. Yet if you were indeed going to open this particular can of worms, it would be extremely helpful to have Tania Murray Li available to offer her...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
Some of our Master’s students are currently on fieldwork in Uganda. This video, of the March 2015 trip, gives an insight into their visit. Last year three of our students also wrote blogs about the fieldwork they carried out. You can read them now. Is universal...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
By Gale Raj-Reichert Malaysia is a country which has experienced tremendous economic growth from the 1970s onwards, moving to upper-middle income status in the mid-1990s (Felipe 2012). One of the key industrial sectors that led its transition out of an agrarian...
by developmentatmanchester | Jan 4, 2016 | Comment, Policy, Uncategorized
By Jonas Amtoft Bruun “We have an agreement”. Those redeeming words from French foreign minister Laurent Fabius in the evening of Saturday the 12th of December unleashed a wave of standing ovations from high level UN staff, delegates and observers from business and...
by developmentatmanchester | Dec 18, 2015 | Comment, Policy, Uncategorized
By Cathy Wilcock, Doctoral Researcher, Global Development Institute Socrates and a pig walk into a bar. Socrates orders a fine bottle of claret and argues for hours with the bartender about Romantic poetry. Being infuriated by the bartender’s base reading of...