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...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 31, 2018 | Comment
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute In 2013 President Xi Jin Ping announced to the world China’s One Belt One Road Initiative. The Initiative set to change the landscape of global trade in this century through strategic infrastructure...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 25, 2018 | Comment, Uncategorized
We were delighted to host the 2018 Development Studies Association Annual Conference at The University of Manchester, focused on global inequalities, a theme which is one of the University’s five research beacons. Development Studies has a long tradition at...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 3, 2018 | Comment
by Gindo Tampubolon Corruption or poor quality governance is inimical to wealth creation. Corruption imposes disincentives to economic activity via two channels. First, a corrupt government is unattractive to people outside its pool of cronies and connections (“crons...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
Call for Papers: Public Service Ethics, Values and Spirituality: Challenges and Opportunities for Developing and Transitional Countries Special issue in: Public Administration and Development (PAD) Special Issue Guest Editors Dr Farhad Hossain (Corresponding Editor),...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 28, 2018 | Research Findings
By Mariana Lopez, PhD researcher, Global Development Institute A recent study in rural Jharkhand, India found that 17% of the women dumped their sanitary pads in the same pond where they bathe. “If you search the bottom of the lake, you will find the whole bed covered...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 27, 2018 | Comment, Events
The Development Studies Association Annual Conference is being hosted by the Global Development Institute from 27-29th June. The conference will focus on inequalities. Ahead of the conference, we are running a series of blogs from attendees looking at the key issues...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 27, 2018 | Events
Welcome from the Global Development Institute at The University of Manchester We are very pleased and honoured to welcome you all to the 2018 Development Studies Association Annual Conference here at The University of Manchester. We are delighted to host this...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
Professor Armando Barrientos, Professor of Poverty and Social Justice Since the turn of the century low and middle income countries have implemented programmes providing regular transfers to families in poverty with the objective of strengthening their capacity to...
