GDI Lecture Series Autumn 2019
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...
Tackling non-communicable diseases in rural Indonesia through mobile technology
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...
Chronic Poverty Report on Growth
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...
Call for Papers: Disrupting Theory, Unsettling Practice: Towards Transformative Forced Migration Scholarship and Policy
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...
New evidence highlights growing urban water crisis
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...
On Civil Society: joint responsibility in the construction of the public in Latin America and the Caribbean
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...
Podcast: Adnan Naseemullah discusses development after statism
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...
Engaging with the communities where we do research
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,...