New Handbook challenges dominant development paradigms
A new handbook, The Routledge Handbook on Global Development, co-edited by the Global Development Institute’s Nicola Banks, has been published. The volume shows how processes and experiences of development have influenced people’s lives in both positive and negative...
Leaving Some Behind? LGBTI Exclusion in Development
Jonathan Stephen, MSc student, Global Development Institute This blog translates some of the key discussion points raised in my MSc Dissertation looking at LGBTI exclusion from development and, in particular, multilateral organisations. My research asked if...
When Covid-19 hits transnational urban lives: localisation and new solidarities
Tanja Müller, Professor of Political Sociology, Global Development Institute Semhar (not her real name) lives in an urban neighbourhood in Nairobi. She had, by local standards, a fairly comfortable life. She and her partner and two children are urban refugees from...