by Global Development Institute | Jul 22, 2020 | Comment
We are very sad to report that our former colleague, Professor Fred Nixson, passed away last Wednesday, 15th July, aged 77. Fred came to the University in 1971 after three years teaching at Makere University in Kampala. Together with David Colman, Diane Elson, Colin...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dr Shamel Azmeh, Lecturer in International Development, Global Development Institute In recent decades, a growing number of books and documentaries have attempted to understand globalisation through following the journey of “things” across the world. The Travels of a...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 17, 2020 | Comment
Giovanni Pasquali, Research Associate, Global Development Institute, Shane Godfrey, University of Cape Town Read the full research briefing here The Covid-19 pandemic is having major implications for the resilience of apparel global value chains (GVCs). State-driven...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 17, 2020 | Comment
Charity Mumbi and Jack Makau work for Muungano wa Wanavijiji, a social movement of ‘slum’ residents and urban poor people in Kenya, affiliated to SDI International. In this podcast they describe the last few months of working through the initial outbreak...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
The story so far The first blog in this series was written just after a ‘corona lockdown’ was enforced in Bangladesh on 26th March 2020. It discussed the reaction to the shock of the 60 low-income households in central Bangladesh who volunteer as ‘diarists’ in our...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Professor David Fielding joined the Global Development Institute earlier this year. We caught up with him about his research interests. What did you do before coming to Manchester? For the last 15 years, I’ve been at the University of Otago in New Zealand as...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
Watch Upasak Das’ webinar on ‘Using information and technology to improve efficacy of welfare programs: Evidence from India’. Dr Upasak Das is a Presidential Fellow at Global Development Institute. Note: This article gives the views of the...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
Osman Ouattara, Senior Lecturer, Development Economics, Global Development Institute Property Rights Revisited The importance of institutional governance, such as a strong rule of law, a lack of corruption, etc. for growth and development is widely recognised within...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 22, 2020 | Comment
Dr Vidhya Unnikrishnan, Lecturer in Development Economics, Global Development Institute Estimates by ILO shows that 92 % of the total employment in India is at the informal sector who are not protected by any formal pension system. The informal sector is characterized...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 16, 2020 | Comment
In this special podcast, we are lucky to be joined by the editors of the newly published Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development, Tanja Bastia and Ronald Skeldon. In this episode, they talk about their long-term collaboration in the fields of migration and...
