by Global Development Institute | Mar 21, 2017 | Events
Eleven academics from the Global Development Institute are helping to convene seven panels at the annual DSA conference in September. The 2017 Development Studies Association Conference will be held at the University of Bradford from the 6-8th September and will focus...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 16, 2017 | Research Findings
Each month we bring you the latest publications from the researchers at the Global Development Institute. Books Kunal Sen has published a new book with Sabyasachi Kar: The Political Economy of India’s Growth Episodes David Lawson, David Hulme and Lawrence Ado-Kofie...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 9, 2017 | Events
On Wednesday, 22 February, Professor Sylvia Chant gave a lecture entitled ‘Gender, Urbanisation and Poverty: Principles, Practice, and the Space of Slums ’. You can listen to the lecture in full or watch the live stream below Find out more about the other talks in our...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 6, 2017 | Comment
By Fortunate Machingura, a Global Challenges Research Fund Postdoctoral Fellow at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. Fortunate holds a PhD in Development Policy and Management from the University of Manchester The aphorism that the populations...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 20, 2017 | Comment, Research Findings
The Global Development Institute recently held a workshop examining global inequalities, which brought together four of the Institute’s leading academics to grapple with various aspects of the ‘issue of the moment’. Two central questions were up for discussion: Why is...
