by Global Development Institute | Jun 21, 2016 | Comment
Professor John Knight, The University of Oxford, recently spoke at the GDI on ‘the principal-agent problem, the developmental state, subjective well-being and social instability: China’s effective but flawed economic governance.’ Listen to the talk...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 20, 2016 | Comment
Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia PhD researcher, Global Development Institute The ongoing war in Syria has left millions of people in conditions of displacement either within or across national borders. Not all Syrian asylum seekers and refugees fled following direct threats...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 16, 2016 | Comment
Yesterday the Global Development Institute’s David Hulme represented a research project run jointly by GDI and SIID (the University of Sheffield), at the Small Charities International Development Debate in the House of Lords. The research project is seeking to map and...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 13, 2016 | Comment
A petition organised by the Daily Mail calling for an end to the 0.7% aid spending target will be debated in parliament today after gaining 230,000 signatures. In his new book, ‘Should Rich Nations Help the Poor’, Professor David Hulme examines the increasingly...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 9, 2016 | Uncategorized
GDI Executive Director, Professor David Hulme, has written a short and accessible analysis of why and how rich nations should help poor people and poorer countries. The book is ideal for general readers and students new to Development Studies and is available from...
