by Global Development Institute | Mar 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
Social protection has risen to a prominent position on the global development agenda since the turn of the millennium. Considerable attention has been devoted to debating the merits of different policy designs and the political factors shaping the adoption of...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 10, 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 2022. The scholarship covers the tuition fees, living expenses, flights to the UK...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 24, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 23, 2022 | Comment
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...
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...
