by Global Development Institute | Dec 14, 2017 | Comment
Kunal Sen, Professor of Development Economics, Global Development Institute When commentators refer to rising inequality, they mostly mean increased inequality in rich countries like the US. But while national inequality may have increased in some countries, global...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
Hamza M. Arsbi, MSc International Development and CEO of Science League The University of Manchester is a world-renowned institution with an impressive record, which is why I choose to study my Masters in International Development at its Global Development Institute....
by Global Development Institute | Dec 13, 2017 | Comment
This blog originally appeared on the Manchester Migration Lab website Blog by Natalie Anne Hall, PhD Candidate, Sociology, The University of Manchester As researchers, we often register for conferences excited and hopeful, arrive at them slightly nervous and, as our...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna and Kunal Sen In spite of recent and unprecedented poverty reduction, the notion that an individual’s expected level of achievement should be ‘a function only of his effort and not of his circumstances’ remains a distant ideal. While...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
On 1st December 2017, students on the MSc programmes in Organisational Change and Development and the Management and Implementation of Development Projects visited the Auto Trader Group headquarters in Manchester. Auto Trader is a large private sector company, listed...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 12, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Rory Horner and David Hulme, Global Development Institute The study and practice of international development has generally referred to the differences between ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ countries. Growing inequality between developed and developing states...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 11, 2017 | Comment
This blog originally appeared on the Manchester Migration Lab website Blog by Ria Sunga, PhD Candidate, History, The University of Manchester The World on the Move Conference was an excellent opportunity for me, as a PhD student, to listen to colleagues and scholars...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 8, 2017 | Comment
This blog originally appeared on the Manchester Migration Lab website Blog by Hannah Haycox, PhD Candidate, Sociology, The University of Manchester “We are far more united and have far more in common than what divides us” (Jo Cox) This week, I was delighted to attend...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
On Wednesday, 29 November, Prof Bill Ferguson, Grinnell College, delivered a lecture entitled ‘a political economy approach to collective action, inequality and development’. This lecture was the Annual Adrian Leftwich Memorial Lecture presented with the...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 6, 2017 | Comment
This blog originally appeared on the Manchester Migration Lab website Blog by Dr William Wheeler, independent scholar Migration, it is agreed, is intimately connected with hope. As we heard from Gulwali Passarlay, a refugee from Afghanistan and author of Lightless...
