Open access book: The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
“The recent creation or expansion of programmes of social protection all across East and Southern Africa raises intriguing and important issues for scholars of the region’s politics. This book, with its admirable combination of empirical substance and analytic...
Uma Kothari announces RGS with IBG 2020 conference theme
Professor Uma Kothari is chairing the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) 2020 conference which will be held at the Society in London, from Tuesday 1 to Friday 4 September 2020. The theme Uma has selected for the conference...
Climate action: why developed countries should track imported emissions, and how to make certification and labelling work for developing countries
Aarti Krishnan, Research Fellow, Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester, and Simon Maxwell, Senior Research Associate of ODI Developed countries are making progress in reducing carbon emissions – and Government regulation of the private sector is...Obituary – Professor Dennis Austin
It is with great sadness that we report the death on October 21, 2019 of Emeritus Professor Dennis Austin at his home in Colchester. Born at the Grove Hospital, Tooting on 14th March, 1922, he was the son of Henry Edmund Austin. After wartime service with the Royal...
Call for Papers: Interrogating regional value chains & their implications for development
University of Johannesburg & University of Manchester Workshop CCRED, Johannesburg, 6-8 July 2020 A rich body of research has examined the prospects for development within global value chains (GVCs) and global production networks (GPNs), yet the implications of...![State [in]capacity and national development](https://blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/3.jpg)
State [in]capacity and national development
Mohammad Kamrul Hasan, PhD Researcher and Teaching Assistant, Global Development Institute Capacity development has become an important issue in the management of public affairs. It deals with obtaining, strengthening and maintaining individual or organizational...
How mega infrastructure projects in Africa, Asia and Latin America are reshaping development
Seth Schindler, Senior Lecturer in Urban Development & Transformation, Global Development Institute and Juan Miguel Kanai, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Sheffield Huge investments in infrastructure are redefining global development, from...
GDI Lecture: Can technology solve global poverty with Rachel Glennerster
Listen or watch Rachel Glennerster, the Chief Economist of the Department for International Development, discuss whether technology can solve global poverty. Prior to her current role she was the Executive Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, a...