by Global Development Institute | Mar 23, 2017 | Comment
This blog originally appeared on the Manchester Migration Lab website. By Kitty Lymperopoulou and Lindsey Garratt The House of Commons has cleared the way for the Prime Minister to trigger article 50 at the end of March 2017, however, what happens next for EU citizens...
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 15, 2017 | Comment
By Sally Cawood, PhD researcher at the Global Development Institute By 2030, it is predicted that nearly five billion (60%) of the world’s population will live in cities[1]. Whilst these spatial shifts are occurring globally, the pace and complexity of urbanisation in...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 10, 2017 | Research Findings
Ritam Sengupta, Richard Heeks, Sumandro Chattapadhyay and Christopher Foster recently published a new Working Paper entitled ‘Exploring Big Data for Development: An Electricity Sector Case Study from India’. You can read the paper, and other Development...