by developmentatmanchester | Jan 19, 2016 | Comment, Events
by David Hulme, Professor, Global Development Institute Oxfam’s annual inequality report finds that extreme polarisation – the ownership of global assets by a tiny minority of the world’s population – has increased. Now, only the 62 richest people in the world own the...
by developmentatmanchester | Jan 6, 2016 | Research Findings, Uncategorized
By Bazoumana Ouattara, University of Manchester; Eric Strobl, École Polytechnique; Jan Vermeiren, Kinetic Analysis Corporation and Stacia Yearwood, Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility. Worryingly losses associated with tropical storms have risen considerably...
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...
