by Global Development Institute | Feb 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
GDI offers a range of taught master’s programmes focusing on human resource management, organisational change, human resource development and managing and delivering development projects. The MSc Human Resource Management programme aims to equip learners with a robust...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Armando Barrientos, Emeritus Professor of Poverty and Social Justice, Global Development Institute Social protection has played a leading role in government responses to Covid-19. Public programmes providing income and in-kind transfers to vulnerable population groups...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
We have just launched a new master’s course on International Development: Migration, Mobility and Displacement. To coincide with this and to give students a greater idea about the course we will be sharing a series of blogs from members of our Migration, Refugees and...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Catch up with our webinar which introduced the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) and outlined how the ACRC and its international partners is planning to tackle complex, political and systemic problems in some of Africa’s fastest-growing urban areas. ACRC has...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Malte Skov and Andreina Carrillo Espinoza, PhD researchers, Global Development Institute The global outbreak of the novel Covid-19 virus has meant that travel restrictions, as well as national, regional, and local lockdowns across the globe, pose major limitations on...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute Global development aims to eradicate poverty in this decade. The task, according to the latest figure from the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, involves 21.4 per cent of Ugandans living in poverty. And...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 14, 2021 | Comment
In 2010 Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos and David Hulme published ‘Just Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution from the Global South’. The book concisely summarises the evidence of the benefits of cash transfers. Its conclusion that both...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 5, 2021 | Comment
Tanja Müller, Professor of Political Sociology, Global Development Institute On 31 December 2020, United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur’s (UNAMID) mandate came to an end. While it will take until 30 June for all UNAMID staff to have left Sudan, the mission no...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 15, 2020 | Events
In this special podcast we sat down for a chat with Chrissie Wellington OBE, the 2020 recipient of The University of Manchester Outstanding Alumni Award. The four-time World Ironman Champion and current Global Head of Health and Wellbeing at Parkrun, talked about her...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 14, 2020 | Comment
In partnership with the British Council and the GREAT Britain Campaign, we’re offering 11 postgraduate scholarships for students from selected countries. We are pleased to offer scholarships of £10,000. Scholarships will be awarded in the form of a partial-fee...
