by Global Development Institute | Nov 13, 2018 | Comment
On the latest episode of the Global Development Institute podcast researchers, Jonathan Glennie and Pablo Yanguas discuss how and why we need to rethink aid. For more on Jonathan Glennie: Jonathan Glennie Read Jonathan’s articles for The Guardian Follow Jonathan...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 8, 2018 | Uncategorized
Professor Yuen Yuen Ang gave the Adrian Leftwich Memorial lecture entitled ‘Autocracy with democratic characteristics: How the West got China wrong’. You can listen to the podcast, or watch the lecture below. Note: This article gives the views of the...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 8, 2018 | Events, Uncategorized
Global Development Institute hosted a special screening of the Ugandan film Boda Boda Thieves at the Millennium Powerhouse in Moss Side, as part of the ESRC’s Festival of Social Sciences. A group of young people from Hulme and Moss Side, youth workers and those...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 1, 2018 | Comment
Professor Diana Mitlin, Managing Director, Global Development Institute After some years away from the water literature I’ve been struck by extent to which a language of neoliberalism has permeated the sector. There are significant costs to this use of language....