by Global Development Institute | May 30, 2017 | Comment
This blog originally appeared on the Manchester Migration Lab website. Blog by Tanja R. Müller, Reader/Associate Professor in Development Studies The two days during which the G-7 leaders held a summit in Sicily, Italy, on the second day joined by the leaders of a...
by Global Development Institute | May 23, 2017 | Comment
Professor Diana Mitlin has appeared as part of the UN-Habitat’s Global Urban Lecture series arguing that coproduction is an essential component of an inclusive urban agenda. UN-Habitat’s Global Urban Lecture series collect and share knowledge related to the New Urban...
by Global Development Institute | May 18, 2017 | Comment
Laura Hirst is working on an ESRC CASE PhD studentship with Operation Florian at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, researching the production of vulnerability to fire risk in resource poor urban settlements in the Global South. She is about...
by Global Development Institute | May 18, 2017 | Comment
By Karishma Banga, PhD researcher at the Global Development Institute We have been living in what Richard Kozul-Wright deems as the ‘Age of Anxiety’, with developing economies suffering from post-traumatic crash disorder, advanced economies finding it difficult to...
by Global Development Institute | May 15, 2017 | Comment
Since graduating from GDI with a PhD in Development Policy and Management in 2013, Dr Bawole has visited The University of Manchester every year to deliver guest seminars and collaborate with colleagues and former supervisors. We caught up with him on his latest visit...
by Global Development Institute | May 11, 2017 | Comment
Professor David Hulme, Executive director of the Global Development Institute A day is a long time in politics and the first full day of election campaigning was dominated by suggestions that the Conservatives would row back on the commitment to spend 0.7% of GNI on...
by Global Development Institute | May 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
On Thursday 4 May, Professor Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, gave a lecture at The University of Manchester on her latest book, Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy (Harvard University Press/Belknap 2014) You can listen to the podcast and...
by Global Development Institute | May 8, 2017 | Comment
Richard Kozul-Wright (Director of the Globalization and Development Strategies Division, UNCTAD) gives a fascinating and timely lecture on why we shouldn’t defend the current international order and why a global new deal is urgently needed. Recent events have provoked...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 27, 2017 | Uncategorized
On Wednesday, 26 April, Dr Shavana Musa gave a lecture entitled ‘The Global Arms Trade and International Law: Prevention is Better than Cure’. You can watch the live stream below Find out more about the other talks in our #GDILecture series Note: This article gives...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 13, 2017 | Comment
By Professor Richard Heeks, Professor of Development Informatics Read the Development Informatics Working Paper ‘Examining “Digital Development”: The Shape of Things to Come?‘ Any emergent digital development paradigm will be shaped by three changing...
