by Global Development Institute | Feb 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
Academics from the Global Development Institute are helping to convene a number of panels at the annual Development Studies Association conference taking place 6-8 July 2022. This year’s conference adopts justice and equity as central normative lenses to explore...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 10, 2022 | Comment
The University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute offers a range of taught master’s programmes focusing on human resource management (MSc HRM), organisational change (MSc OCD), human resource management and development by distance learning (MSc...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 10, 2022 | Comment
The MSc Human Resource Management programme aims to equip learners with a robust theoretical framework for careers in human resource management and, at the same time, provide students with an opportunity to gain insights into practice-focused human resource practice...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
Our latest podcast episode features Shuaib Lwasa, founder and director of the Urban Action Lab, in conversation with Seth Schindler. They reflect on COP26 in Glasgow, discuss how Africa can position itself as an innovator in climate solutions, and talk about urban...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 21, 2022 | Comment
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute In his treatise on justice, The Idea of Justice (2009), Amartya Sen explains that from Hobbes through Kant to Rawls, the theory of justice is concerned principally with the task of elucidating the...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 13, 2022 | Comment
Isis Barei-Guyot, PhD researcher, Global Development Institute Influencing development The connection between celebrities and development may not be immediately apparent, but celebrity philanthropism has come to occupy an increasingly accepted role in the field of...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 10, 2022 | Comment
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute Climate change threatens the next generation, as young activists around the world tell world leaders insistently. The unborn are not exempt. Secular temperature rises, covering pregnancy period, have...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 17, 2021 | Comment
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute Brazil tops the rank of Covid-19 deaths in Latin America due, in no small measure, to the government’s response to the pandemic. The president dallies while the toll tallies. On the other side of the...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
Hangala Siachiwena, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Cape Town, Kate Pruce, ESRC Research Fellow, Global Development Institute, and Marja Hinfelaar Director of Research and Programs at the Southern African Institute for Policy and Research, SAIPAR Hakainde...
