by Global Development Institute | Aug 30, 2018 | Uncategorized
Dan Brockington, Nicola Banks, Mathilde Maitrot and David Hulme One of the vices of poverty is not being able to access that little bit of extra money when you need it. An opportunity comes up, such as a job interview, or a useful animal you can buy, but you do not...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 23, 2018 | Comment, Research Findings, Uncategorized
Pablo Yanguas, Global Development Institute Honorary Fellow At a time when countries are highly integrated yet increasingly unequal there is no more important issue than ensuring that everyone lives well, but how do we achieve this? Old paradigms focused on...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 22, 2018 | Comment
Dr Joanne Jordan, Global Development Institute Honorary Fellow Since my first trip to Bangladesh in 2008, I have lost count of the number of times I have been asked the same question by those I interview as part of my research: ‘Will you tell our story so people know...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 20, 2018 | Comment
Armando Barrientos, Professor of Poverty and Social Justice, Global Development Institute The aim of this blog post is to throw light on Universal Basic Income (UBI) as a social policy. In current policy debates UBI proposals have a number of objectives: to address...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 17, 2018 | Comment
Daniel Diaz Vera, PhD Researcher, Global Development Institute Over recent decades, good governance has been seen as one of the key mechanisms for NGOs to build and sustain their legitimacy. For many NGOs, governance is embodied by a board of trustees which is often...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 14, 2018 | Comment, Research Findings
Kelechi Ekuma, Lecturer in Management, Governance and Development, Global Development Institute Researchers from the University of Manchester and the University of Melbourne recently meet at the Global Development Institute (GDI), University of Manchester to...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 13, 2018 | News, Research Findings
Governing Extractive Industries: Politics, Histories, Ideas is an open access title available which means it is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP. Proposals for more effective natural resource governance have...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 8, 2018 | Comment
Edward Ademolu, PhD Researcher, Global Development Institute What role, if anything, do representations of Africa by NGOs have on identity and engagement with International Development, by African diaspora communities?” Do they, readily accept development...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 8, 2018 | Comment
Edward Ademolu, PhD Researcher, Global Development Institute As a young child in the 1990s my introduction to international development was through watching Comic Relief’s performative biennial telethon ‘Red Nose Day’. This high-profile event armed with prosthetic...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 2, 2018 | Comment
Professor Phil Woodhouse and Professor Dan Brockington discuss their research project Studying African Farmer Led Irrigation. The project brings together social science researchers from the UK and irrigation scientists from the Netherlands to work with African...
