by Global Development Institute | Jun 12, 2019 | Comment
Today, we’re welcoming researchers and activists to Manchester for a conference on the challenges and opportunities of scaling up participation in urban settings. But of the ten keynote speakers we invited from the Global South, only five have received a visa to...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 10, 2019 | Comment, Uncategorized
By Tanja R. Müller Fittingly, a few days since I returned from a visit to Eritrea that coincided with the 28th celebration of Eritrean independence on 24th May, an academic article I wrote in November 2018 about the rapprochement between Eritrea and Ethiopia has just...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
by Paul Barry and Lujia Feng Students on the Management and Governance in Development Group in the Global Development Institute had a workshop on the recruitment and application process of IBM. The workshop provided students with insights into of practice-focused...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Researchers from the Global Development Institute will be convening 6 panels the Development Studies Association Conference. The conference runs from 19-21st June at the Open University in Milton Keynes. Find out about the panels and papers our researchers are...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 3, 2019 | Uncategorized
Our PhD researcher Mariana Lopez Rodriguez discusses her research on “Gender-Environmental relations in Global Production Networks.” In developing markets, intensive product marketing, international aid, NGO encouragement, and progressive popular media have started to...
by Global Development Institute | May 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
A number of our researchers will be at ECAS2019 on Africa: Connections and Disruptions. The conference will run from 11-14 June in Edinburgh. Pritish Behuria will be convening a panel with Annie Pitcher on ‘The political economy of diversified business groups’. He...
by Global Development Institute | May 14, 2019 | Uncategorized
Professor Diana Mitlin Professor of Global Urbanism and Managing Director of the Global Development Institute. The romance of the barricades features in Les Misérables, but it also figures heavily in academic texts. Many academics, professionals and political...
by Global Development Institute | May 10, 2019 | Comment
Listen or watch Professor Edgar Pieterse, DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Urban Policy, Director the African Centre for Cities and Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, all at the University of Cape Town, discuss his forthcoming book...
by Global Development Institute | May 6, 2019 | Research Findings
Giving local communities in Nepal the opportunity to manage their forests has simultaneously reduced deforestation and poverty in the region, new research has shown. In the largest study of its kind, an international team of experts led by The University of Manchester...
by Global Development Institute | May 2, 2019 | Comment
Listen or watch Professor Genevieve Le Baron, Co-Director, Sheffield Political Economy Research Intitute (SPERI), The University of Sheffield, discuss the business of forced labour in global agricultural supply chains You can subscribe to the podcast on: Spotify...
