by Global Development Institute | Oct 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sylvia Nyarko, GDI Merit Scholar, 2018/2019. I believe Covid-19 has come to stay and is far from over. Its ripple effects and impacts have greatly been felt by all including academics. Those mostly at loss are the PhD and MPhil students who require primary data for...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 21, 2020 | Comment
Our two years master’s programme in Human Resource Management and Development is accepting students for January 2021 entry. So if you’re in a job you love or have family commitments – but still want to immerse yourself in postgraduate study, then this distance...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 8, 2020 | Comment
Prof David Hulme, Global Development Institute Oxfam’s reports on inequality have grabbed the headlines over the years – “8 men own the same wealth as 3.6 billion people” won global media coverage a few years ago and challenged many of the world’s business elite at...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Bangladesh government closed all schools on March 17th, 2020 as part of a ‘lockdown’ to combat the virus. Since then there have been several target dates for re-opening, but each has been cancelled and we still cannot be sure when the schools will open again....
by Global Development Institute | Oct 6, 2020 | Comment
We are delighted to announce a day-long symposium on 17th October to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the 5th Pan-African Congress which was held in Manchester. Organised by our Africa Research Group, the event will bring together researchers to discuss ‘75...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 6, 2020 | Comment
Whitney Banyai-Becker (GDI), Charity Mwangi (SDI Kenya) and Jane Wairutu (SDI Kenya) explain how Muungano’s work with the Kenyan Ministry of Health is helping to find data-driven solutions to Covid-19 that are appropriate in informal settlements. Muungano wa...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 1, 2020 | Comment
Researchers from the Global Development Institute have been awarded a new research contract of £32 million to establish the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC), funded by the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) as part of UK Aid. Find out...
by Global Development Institute | Sep 30, 2020 | Comment
Giovanni Pasquali, Shane Godfrey, Khalid Nadvi Enabled by the ESRC-GCRF grant (ES/S000453/1) as part of the project ‘Shifting South: decent work in regional value chains and South-South trade’. South-South trade between developing countries now exceeds North-South...
by Global Development Institute | Sep 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
To celebrate their new book, The Routledge Handbook of Place, Ares Kalandides, Tim Edensor and GDI’s Uma Kothari took part in an online launch event organised by Institute of Place Management. The event also featured chapter writers David Cooper, Jenny...
by Global Development Institute | Sep 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute Empowering women is firmly recognised as a key driver to development and empowered women an essential achievement of it. They can take part in the political affairs of the nation more actively, in the...
