by Global Development Institute | Mar 23, 2021 | Comment
The Global Development Institute offers a range of taught master’s programmes in international development, including four focusing on human resource management (MSc HRM), organisational change (MSc OCD), human resource management and development by distance learning...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 19, 2021 | Comment
GDI’s Human Resource Management course 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 gain insights into practice-focused HRM across a wide range of management...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 4, 2021 | Comment
Rising disposable income, intensive product marketing and NGO encouragement has seen more women in India adopting modern pads and tampons instead of traditional menstrual management methods. But this has resulted in adverse effects on environment and waste management...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
Dr Matthew Walsham, Research Associate, Global Development Institute and Dr Tanja Bastia, Reader, Global Development Institute In this blog, we mark this year’s International Women’s Day by reflecting on the heavy toll that Covid-19 has had on migrants across the...
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...
