by Global Development Institute | Dec 9, 2022 | Uncategorized
Towards understanding the African entrepreneurs and their cultural context: Economic rationality and African value system. Introduction Like most management journals, Africa Journal of Management has already published several articles on entrepreneurs and...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 7, 2022 | Comment
Sophie van Huellen, Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester UK households, like those in many other countries, are struggling to make ends meet. More than half of households have only £2.66 per week left after paying for bills and essentials,...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Tanja Müller, Professor of Political Sociology, Global Development Institute Reflections from the first emerging findings workshop of the ESRC-funded project: Transnational lived citizenship: practices of citizenship as political belonging among emerging diasporas in...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 7, 2022 | Comment
The Global Development Institute Merit Awards provide three full scholarships for academically excellent professionals studying a GDI campus-based master’s course commencing in September 2023. The scholarship covers tuition fees, living expenses, flights to the UK,...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 7, 2022 | Comment
In the latest Global Development Institute podcast Amani Abou-Zeid, African Union Commissioner in charge of infrastructure, energy and ICT, talks to Seth Schindler about energy security and infrastructural development in Africa. Ahead of COP27 in Egypt, they reflect...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 2, 2022 | Comment
DSA Politics and Political Economy Study Group Sponsored by the Journal of Development Studies Conference fund and The Development Studies Association Organised by Pritish Behuria (Manchester) and Tom Goodfellow (Sheffield) Development studies – as a field – has been...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 26, 2022 | Comment
Following the completion of the interdisciplinary FutureDAMS project in early 2022, this lecture delivered by the project leads reflects on what they have learned through their research, capacity development and policy engagement over the last four and a half years....
by Global Development Institute | Oct 24, 2022 | Comment
Development studies often focuses on the negative: constraints, challenges, negative impacts, etc. But what if we could use new digital datasets to identify positive deviants: outlier individuals, households, districts and others that outperform their peers in...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 3, 2022 | Comment
The GDI Lecture Series is back, and after the last three years, we are finally In-Person. As previously, the Global Development Institute Lecture Series provides space for leading development thinkers to discuss their latest research and ideas. Lectures are free and...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 3, 2022 | Comment
Juno Ellison, Wellcome EDI Research Placement intern The outcomes for migrants are often determined by how states define and value their skill sets. Defining such skills has become increasingly controversial in migration research as there are a variety of contemporary...
