by Global Development Institute | Mar 23, 2016 | Events
Big and Open Data for International Development workshop Tuesday 12 July 2016, Centre for Development Informatics, University of Manchester, UK This is a call for abstracts/presentations on big and open data for international development, with an initial deadline of...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
Some of our Master’s students are currently on fieldwork in Uganda. This video, of the March 2015 trip, gives an insight into their visit. Last year three of our students also wrote blogs about the fieldwork they carried out. You can read them now. Is universal...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
Dr Tomas Frederiksen spoke last week as part of the Global Development Seminar Series. Tomas discussed whether corporate social responsibility in the mining sector can deliver development. Listen to the talk: The Global Development Seminar Series brings together...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
By Gale Raj-Reichert Malaysia is a country which has experienced tremendous economic growth from the 1970s onwards, moving to upper-middle income status in the mid-1990s (Felipe 2012). One of the key industrial sectors that led its transition out of an agrarian...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 22, 2016 | Comment
By Tanja R. Müller Even as – at least when listening to the media – it seems that Europe faces a unique challenge with the increasing numbers of refugees (or as the British media prefers to call them, towing the government line, migrants), who flee war in Syria and...
