by Global Development Institute | May 20, 2021 | Comment
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, many countries imposed severe restrictions or lockdowns on a swath of activities across society. Uganda is no exception. On 20 March 2020, a stay at home...
by Global Development Institute | May 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
The Global Development Institute offers a range of taught master’s programmes. The MSc Human Resource Management programme aims to equip learners with a robust theoretical framework for careers in HRM and at the same time to provide students with an opportunity to...
by Global Development Institute | May 17, 2021 | Comment
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 | May 13, 2021 | Comment
Over 50 local campaign organisations, including housing and climate groups, trade unions and charities, have signed an open letter to Andy Burnham calling for a democratic approach to managing public land in Greater Manchester. The letter calls for Burnham to use his...
by Global Development Institute | May 5, 2021 | Comment
Migración Transnacional en tiempos de pandemia en América Latina y el Caribe/ Transnational Migration in Times of a Pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean Descripción: Convocatoria abierta para migrantes y/o refugiados/refugiadas que estén en cualquier parte de...
by Global Development Institute | May 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Xi Xi and Kunkanit Sutamchai Publishing papers in journals is an effective approach to disseminate your research and communicate with peers in the research field. For a PhD student, having a paper published in an academic journal proves that you are capable to...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
David Little Much of my career has been spent trying to find ways of reducing the environmental pollution and social damage caused by oil spills. In recent work with colleagues at Manchester and Vancouver, we have shown how prolonged public pressure brought genuine...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 19, 2021 | Comment
Tanja Bastia, Reader, Global Development Institute Transnational care takes various forms. People’s abilities to practice transnational care also varies and has, inevitably, been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. I begin with two vignettes: doña Celia from Santa...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Armando Barrientos, Emeritus Professor of Poverty and Social Justice, Global Development Institute Social policy has traditionally focused on income, its distribution and redistribution. But wealth is increasingly coming into view on issues such as wealth taxes,...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Since May 2015 the Hrishipara Daily Financial Diary project has been recording all the daily money transactions of a sample of low-income households living in central Bangladesh. At the end of March 2021, we asked them about the transactions they hadn’t made. The...
