by GDI | Dec 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Last month, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) hosted its annual conference of the parties (COP) in Belém, Brazil. Known as COP30, this year’s climate summit took place a decade after the milestone Paris Agreement at COP21, wherein...
by GDI | Dec 5, 2025 | Comment
Dr. Lujia Feng, Programme Director, MSc Human Resource Management (International Development), writes about the mental health session & social dinner on Tuesday, 25th November 2025 for students on the course. As we move toward the end of Semester One, our students...
by GDI | Dec 4, 2025 | Comment
by Mahtab Uddin Doctoral Researcher, GDI, the University of Manchester Assistant Professor, Economics, University of Dhaka For decades, the promise of global development was rooted in a simple idea: the world, though unequal, could move forward together. Richer...
by GDI | Dec 3, 2025 | Uncategorized
by Tekle Weldemichel (Lecturer in Environment and Development at GDI) and Hussein M. Sulieman (Research Fellow at GDI) The Horn of Africa (HoA) has, in recent years, been going through one of the most acute episodes of political and humanitarian crisis in its modern...
by GDI | Dec 1, 2025 | Uncategorized
CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop: Envisioning Labour-Led Urban Development Global Development Institute, University of Manchester Thursday to Friday, 23-24 April 2026 Please find below a full description of the workshop focus and three thematic areas. Workshop organisers:...
by GDI | Nov 28, 2025 | Uncategorized
by Dr Kelechi Ekuma, Senior Lecturer in Management, Governance and Development and GDI Employability Lead Higher education can transform a person’s life prospects, broaden their horizons and equip them with the knowledge they need to pursue an exciting and fulfilling...
by GDI | Nov 27, 2025 | Comment
We recently hosted the fourth instalment of our community of practice series designed to support development practitioners navigating difficult social, economic, and political circumstances. Having previously explored issues such as personal resilience, organisational...
by GDI | Nov 7, 2025 | Comment
In this blog, Evie Taylor, undergraduate student on GDI’s Global Development course, recounts her eye-opening summer travels in Nepal. Touchdown in Kathmandu After the chaos of India, touching down in Nepal felt like breathing out. There was a sense of...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 6, 2025 | Events, Policy
By Isis Barei-Guyot, Tom Gillespie and Smith Ouma On 4 November 2025 Zohran Mamdani was elected Mayor of New York City. The 34-year-old Democratic Socialist campaigned on the issue of urban affordability and took on the city’s political and real estate establishment...
by GDI | Nov 6, 2025 | Comment
by Louisa Hann In these times of economic and geopolitical upheaval, global development issues have been making frequent headlines. In recent months, for example, we’ve seen the controversial opening of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (an infrastructural project...
