by Global Development Institute | Nov 23, 2017 | Comment, Research Findings
Dr Rory Horner and Prof Khalid Nadvi, Global Development Institute In a new, open access article published in Global Networks, we argue that Southern actors and Southern end markets have more prominent roles in global trade, requiring greater attention to the...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 22, 2017 | Comment
By Dr Fortunate Machingura, Global Challenge Research Fund Postdoctoral Fellow at Global Development Institute Robert Mugabe’s resignation, after what looks a lot like a military coup has ended the rule of one of the world’s most fearsome, fierce and long-serving...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 22, 2017 | Comment
This blog originally appeared on the Manchester Migration Lab website By Nina Glick Schiller, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester *Based on Keynote lecture given at the Migration Lab World on the Move conference, this blog is the first...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 21, 2017 | Comment
On Friday, 17 November, Prof AbdouMaliq Simone of University of South Australia delivered a lecture entitled Flickering in the dark: Urban tissue as provisional care. This lecture was held in collaboration with the Manchester Urban Institute. You can watch the...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 20, 2017 | Comment
The University of Manchester will be holding a post-graduate taught open day on 22 November. If you’re interested in studying at the Global Development Institute but can’t make the open day then you can view the presentation below. Global Development...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 20, 2017 | Comment
By Caroline Boyd, Global Inequalities Campaign Manager (Research Beacon) When research provides you with human stories as emotive and keenly felt as those gathered by the 70+ researchers in the University’s Migration Lab, communication is not the biggest challenge....
by Global Development Institute | Nov 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
Aarti Krishnan, Global Development Institute and the Overseas Development Institute Governance and power form the core of value chain analysis; however, these two concepts are multilayered, complex and fuzzy. Both truly tick ‘the more I read, the less I think I know’...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 15, 2017 | Comment
For the few years, Dan Brockington of the Sheffield Institute for International Development and Nicola Banks of GDI, have been engaged on an epic project to map UK NGOs focused on development. The database they have compiled on the 900 organisations that spend over...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 10, 2017 | Comment
We are pleased to announce that Deals and Development, a book resulting from Effective States and Inclusive Development research on the politics of growth, has been published. You can also read an Open Access version of the book here. The book is edited by three...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 9, 2017 | Comment
Global Development Institute explains brings together expert academics from across the Institute to explain key concepts in development studies. Who is a refugee? How do you define words like ‘migrant’ and ‘asylum seeker’? Are these synonymous...
