by Global Development Institute | May 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
A number of our researchers will be at ECAS2019 on Africa: Connections and Disruptions. The conference will run from 11-14 June in Edinburgh. Pritish Behuria will be convening a panel with Annie Pitcher on ‘The political economy of diversified business groups’. He...
by Global Development Institute | May 10, 2019 | Comment
Listen or watch Professor Edgar Pieterse, DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Urban Policy, Director the African Centre for Cities and Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, all at the University of Cape Town, discuss his forthcoming book...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Chris Jordan, Communications and Impact Manager [Visit the NGO explorer site here] After setting out to better understand the UK’s development NGO sector, Dan Brockington and Nicola Banks soon realised that pulling together the data on thousands of charities would be...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 15, 2019 | Comment
Dr Rory Horner and Professor David Hulme Since 1990 the global map of development has shifted from one of “divergence, big time” to “converging divergence”. This involves some converging in development indicators between North and South in aggregate, alongside...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 14, 2019 | Comment
One word to describe the current state of multilateralism is “contested”. Within existing international institutions, like the United Nations, debates on global governance reform have been politicised to a point of gridlock. New multilateral institutions, like the...
