Universal Basic Income and poverty reduction
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...
‘Board’ with Good Governance and Accountability? Topical Challenges in the NGO Sector
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...
Leadership for Development Interrogated
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...
Governing Extractive Industries: Politics, Histories, Ideas
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...
How representations of Africa by NGOs impact diaspora community’s identity and engagement with international development
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...
Seeing and Being Development’s ‘Other’: Representations of Africa and Diaspora Audiences
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...
Podcast: Studying African Farmer-led Irrigation with Phil Woodhouse and Dan Brockington
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...
Has the One Belt One Road Initiative built an inroad into global trade?
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...