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...
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),...
