GDI Lecture: How can irrigation contribute to agricultural growth in Africa with Phil Woodhouse
Professor Phil Woodhouse gave a lecture entitled; ‘How can irrigation contribute to agricultural growth in Africa?’. The lecture was based on Prof Woodhouse’s recent research project Studying African Farmer Led Irrigation (SAFI). Listen or watch to...
Get a GDI master’s without leaving your job, or paying a penny!
While our campus based master’s programmes are regularly oversubscribed, they don’t work for everyone. If you’re in a job you love, or have family commitments – but still want to immerse yourself in postgraduate study then a distance learning programme can be an...
Hrishipara daily financial diaries: Tracking transactions, understanding lives part 1
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...
Problems of development and “development” as a problem
Henning Melber, President of the EADI and Julia Schöneberg, Research Fellow at the University of Kassel Brazil as the latest example shows: right-wing populism remains on the rise, unleashing the brute force of predator capitalism under authoritarian regimes. The...
Collapse: grey development and failed architecture in Nairobi
Dr Constance Smith, Hallsworth Fellow in Social Anthropology, The University of Manchester ‘Those building materials are bad! See that steel, it is very small. The bricks are also weak, they could not build a tall building like this’. Standing amid the rubble of a...
Infrastructure-led development and the race to connect the world
GDI researcher Seth Schindler recently presented at The First General Assembly of the Alliance of Scientific Organizations (ANSO) in the Belt and Road Region, in Beijing, China. Created by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, ANSO brings together researchers, policy...
PhD Scholarships at Global Development Institute
Thinking of doing a PhD at the Global Development Institute? Then you might be interested in a number of scholarship opportunities to help fund your study. Below are some of the available awards but you can find the full selection, including country-specific awards,...
GDI Lecture Series: Women – Equality – Power with Helen Clark
Rt. Hon Helen Clark, former Administrator of UNDP and former Prime Minister of New Zealand presents the Global Development Institute Annual Lecture. Helen Clark addresses the issues of women’s leadership and gender equality and their importance to a sustainable...