by GDI | Jan 9, 2025 | Comment
By Louisa Hann It’s the beginning of a new year – a time when many of us are looking to the future. Whether you’re trying to stick to a resolution or counting down the days until spring, January is often charged with a combination of renewal, resolve, and trepidation....
by GDI | Jan 8, 2025 | Comment
by Dr Gindo Tampubolon (Reader in Global Health, GDI) and Dr Elia Maggang (Honorary Fellow, Lincoln Theological Institute) This year marks the mid-point of the decade and the global health initiative known as the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing. Led by the World Health...
by GDI | Dec 18, 2024 | Comment
By Diana Mitlin A recent conference on African Urbanism has provided a useful space for me to reflect on what the African experience has brought to my work and that of my colleagues. This has included academic scholarship, professional and policy engagement and...
by GDI | Dec 3, 2024 | Comment
By academic staff members of the Manchester- Melbourne Masters in Leadership in Development The leadership deficit in development research and practice The development sector is a unique field that aims to facilitate social, cultural, environmental, economic, legal,...
by GDI | Nov 27, 2024 | Comment
By Mengistu Weldemariam Master’s in Leadership for Development Alumnus and Programme Manager for Mortgage Stress Victoria in Melbourne, Australia How does the way we think about ourselves affect our propensity to lead others? How can development practitioners harness...
by GDI | Nov 21, 2024 | Comment
By Lina Arenas University of Manchester GDI Alumna and Former Deputy Minister of Vulnerable Populations of the Peruvian Government PhD candidate in Social Policy from The University of Edinburgh, UK What role does knowledge really play in the making of social...
by GDI | Nov 18, 2024 | Comment
By Dr. Ibrahim Efe On February 6, 2023, an earthquake shook southern Turkey, near the Syrian border – a massive natural disaster with far-reaching impacts. A 7.8 magnitude quake, the largest Turkey has experienced in over 20 years, struck near Gaziantep—a critical...
by GDI | Nov 15, 2024 | Comment
A few months ago, the University of Manchester’s Post-Crash Economics Society and Rethinking Economics launched a report examining whether the economics curriculum is capable of tackling the world’s mounting crises. Global Development undergraduate and report...
by GDI | Nov 5, 2024 | Comment
by Dr Tom Lavers, Reader in Politics, Global Development Institute More than 13 years after Ethiopia’s former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi laid its foundation stone, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) is finally nearing completion. A new open access book, Dams,...
by GDI | Oct 29, 2024 | Comment
by Dr Gindo Tampubolon, Reader in Global Health The COVID-19 pandemic forced countries to make difficult choices between protecting lives and supporting livelihoods, including jobs in global value chains (GVCs). While some countries reinforced onshore manufacturing...
