by Global Development Institute | Jan 5, 2017 | Comment
Joanne Jordan continues our series on the big development trends to look out for in 2017 In 2016 the main focus around climate change issues was on ratifying and maintaining international momentum after the Paris Agreement. In the future I think we need to see much...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 4, 2017 | Comment
Pablo Yanguas continues our series looking at the big development trends to look out for in 2017 These are difficult times for the foreign aid system. While budgets may still be growing in countries like the UK, the reality of aid is one of dire challenges on two...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 3, 2017 | Comment
Rory Horner begins our series looking at some of the big trends in development to look out for in 2017. 2016 was, by many accounts, a strange year. Contemporaneously with the often discussed “rising powers”, 2016 saw the growth and resonance of “declinism” in what...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 20, 2016 | Comment, Uncategorized
By Robbie Watt, Global Development Institute Less developed countries that are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and which have very low greenhouse gas emissions, make up a substantial majority of nations represented at the United Nations Framework...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 19, 2016 | Comment
By Chris Lyon, PhD researcher at the Global Development Institute. The working title of his thesis is Exploring a relational conception of social justice: liberals, radicals, and Brazil’s ‘new social contract’. Much of IRIBA’s research has been cautiously optimistic,...