by Global Development Institute | Feb 4, 2019 | Comment
Listen or watch Moira V. Faul, Université de Genève, Switzerland and Jordan Tchilingirian, University of Bath, talk about ‘What social network analysis can tell us about multi-stakeholder partnerships’ Listen or watch to the lecture in full below. You can...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Since May 2015 we have been recording the daily money transactions of up to 70 households living near a small market town in central Bangladesh. These ‘daily financial diaries’ shed light on the money-management behaviour of low-income households, described in papers...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 25, 2019 | Comment, News, Research Findings
By Rory Horner and Matthew Alford, January 2019 In a new paper in the GDI Working Paper Series we argue that the state-GVC nexus is, and will continue to be, especially significant in shaping development outcomes. Research on global value chains (GVCs) has broken with...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 22, 2019 | Comment, News
The Project Syndicate created a video on the research done by Antonio Savoia and Niaz Asadullah on whether state capacity made an impact on achieving the MDGs. Download their original open access research paper Read commentary on World Economic Forum. Note: This...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
We are delighted to announce a flagship international conference convened by Effective States and Inclusive Development research centre, Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester. Confirmed plenary speakers include world leading experts Anne Marie...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 4, 2019 | Comment
Gabriele Restelli, PhD Researcher, Global Development Institute The United Nations recently approved the Global Compact for Migration. This has come shortly after the endorsement of the other compact, for refugees. These agreements have sparked tensions, protests and...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 2, 2019 | Comment
The goals addressing the challenges in the sustainable development goals are all intimately linked; progress towards one goal depends on, and affects, other goals. And as economies and societies are globally interconnected, countries will need to work together to...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 22, 2018 | Comment, News
As 2018 draws to a close, seismic shifts are taking place globally, nationally and locally. While headline poverty rates continue to fall, will growing inequality choke off the benefits of growth? In increasingly urbanised societies, are new forms of disadvantage...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 20, 2018 | Comment, News
With so much news of political, social and environmental doom it’s easy to forget that good things have also been happening in the world. We asked our researchers to tell us some nuggets of good that took place in 2018: Dani Malerba, Honorary Research Fellow GDI....
by Global Development Institute | Dec 19, 2018 | Comment
In their Review “Landscapes that work for biodiversity and people” (19 October, p. eaau6020), C. Kremen and A. M. Merenlender discuss techniques that can preserve both ecosystem services and biodiversity in landscapes that have been modified by humans. They suggest...
