by Louisa Hann | Apr 11, 2024 | Comment, Research Findings
By Richard Heeks What are the implications for the global South of China’s emergence as a digital superpower? A recently-published literature review from myself and colleagues at the University of Manchester identifies seven key issues that have so far emerged…...
by Louisa Hann | Dec 14, 2023 | Events
Scholars across the Global Development Institute are convening or co-convening a range of exciting panels at this year’s Development Studies Association Conference, taking place at SOAS between 26th and 28th June 2024. The event theme is ‘Social justice and...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 9, 2023 | Comment
Gindo Tampubolon, Global Development Institute and United Nations University – World Institute for Development Economics Research The toll of the Covid-19 pandemic is still being counted. Meanwhile, new variants continue to threaten because the reservoir of people...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 7, 2022 | Comment
The Global Development Institute Merit Awards provide three full scholarships for academically excellent professionals studying a GDI campus-based master’s course commencing in September 2023. The scholarship covers tuition fees, living expenses, flights to the UK,...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 24, 2022 | Comment
Development studies often focuses on the negative: constraints, challenges, negative impacts, etc. But what if we could use new digital datasets to identify positive deviants: outlier individuals, households, districts and others that outperform their peers in...