Hrishipara daily financial diaries: Getting to the Gulf
For this Bangladeshi youth, finding work in Saudi Arabia meant more than getting a job offer and buying the plane ticket. In February 2016 we were recruiting respondents for the ‘financial diary’ research project in central Bangladesh in which we record, each day, all...
Lord Jim O’Neill launches new rising powers podcast series hosted by Stephen Sackur
To mark the completion of Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures, BBC Hardtalk presenter Stephen Sackur is hosting a podcast series examining the current issues and debates heighted by the research. The rising powers represent one of the main drivers of global...
“This trip has brought to life what we read about all year” – Accompanying our Master’s students on fieldwork to Uganda
Judith Krauss, Lecturer in Environment, Climate Change and Development, Global Development Institute, and Mario Hernández Trejo, PhD researcher and teaching assistant in Geography A ten-day field course to Uganda is a staple of various Master’s pathways in...
Booking now open: Development Studies Association conference 27-29th June 2018
Academics from the Global Development Institute are convening a number of panels and giving a lot of papers at the annual Development Studies Association conference taking place 27-29th June at The University of Manchester. This year’s theme will be Global...Rana Plaza: Five years on
Four years ago, our institute marked the first anniversary of the Rana Plaza collapse which claimed more than 1,100 lives. Professor Stephanie Barrientos from the Global Development Institute and Rosey Hurst (the founder and director of Impactt which works with...
Disability, poverty, and technology in Uganda
Dr Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute Developing countries are often marked by spatial disparity with the centre hoarding political influence, wealth and services. Increasingly they are also marred by neglect of disability with very...
Addressing global inequalities: new ideas for moving forward
Phuong Nguyen, Master of Development Studies, President of the Graduate Organisation of Development Students (GOODS) at the University of Melbourne, Australia Are global inequalities growing or diminishing? With the rise of new global powers, are the dimensions of...
Community Contracting: together, we build our future
Kani Ming Chu Lam “We are homeless, but not hopeless.” said proudly the youth representative of National Slum Dwellers Federation of Uganda (NSDFU), Jinja region, on the first day we met during an introductory section with the federation members. This marked the...