by Global Development Institute | Sep 25, 2019 | Comment
Keisha Maloney, MSc Global Urban Development and Planning Once notorious for violence, cartels and drug trafficking, the city of Medellín in Colombia is increasingly becoming known for its transformation not only to peace – but prosperity. Like cities all around the...
by Global Development Institute | Sep 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
We are delighted to announce the autumn line-up for our GDI Lecture series. The series brings leading development thinkers to Manchester to discuss their latest research and ideas. Lectures are free and open to staff, students and the general public. All the lectures...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 30, 2019 | News, Research Findings, Uncategorized
Dr Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute Indonesia is the fourth most populous country with more than 210 million people, undergoing wrenching demographic and epidemiologic transitions. The country is young, though its adult population is...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 16, 2019 | Comment
The Chronic Poverty Advisory Network has launched its new Chronic Poverty Report on Growth, which also includes a briefing note on ‘pathways to sustained poverty reduction: balancing growth from above and below’ The Chronic Poverty Advisory Network was originally the...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 15, 2019 | Comment
Panel proposal: IASFM18 University of Ghana, Accra, 27th – 30th July 2020 Nicole Hirt, GIGA Hamburg & Tanja R. Müller, The University of Manchester Panel Title: Forced Migration and Agency – New dynamics within and beyond the nation state In this panel we...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 13, 2019 | News, Research Findings
New research has found that in 15 major cities in the global south, almost half of all households lack access to piped utility water, affecting more than 50 million people. Access is lowest in the cities of sub-Saharan Africa, where only 22% of households receive...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Daniel Díaz Vera, PhD Researcher, Global Development Institute For many people, the city of Medellin conjures images of drug traffickers, horrible murders and chaos. That image is probably due to series such as Netflix’s Narcos, rather than the current situation in...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dr Adnan Naseemullah of King College London, recently visited GDI to discuss his new book, Development After Statism: Industrial Firms and the Political Economy of South Asia. The book discusses industrial development in a new era of drastically constricted state...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 22, 2019 | Comment, Events
One of our PhD candidates, Mapenzie Tauzie decided to organise an activity in Zomba, Malawi – the community from where her field researchers came from. The result was a spectacular display of football and netball for young people which went on for ten weeks,...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 22, 2019 | Comment
Tomas Frederiksen, Lecturer in International Development, Global Development Institute and Matthew Himley, Associate Professor of Geography, Illinois State University The extractive industry has a brutish reputation. Since the 1980s, along with big dams, ‘extractives’...
