by Global Development Institute | Jul 10, 2017 | Comment
Dr Rory Horner, Lecturer in Globalisation and Political Economy The composition of global inequality is changing. Between-country inequalities, although vast, are mostly falling, while the relative share of within-country inequalities within global inequalities is...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 4, 2017 | Comment
During refugee week, the Migration Lab hosted a newspaper writing workshop that produced ‘Not the Fake News about refuge and asylum. Written in one day by a group of displaced people in collaboration with Manchester-based journalists and migration researchers from The...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 3, 2017 | Comment
This blog originally appeared on the Manchester Migration Lab website. During refugee week, the Migration Lab hosted a newspaper writing workshop that produced ‘Not the Fake News about refuge and asylum. Written in one day by a group of displaced people in...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 29, 2017 | Research Findings
By Manoj K. Pandey, Vani S. Kulkarni and Raghav Gaiha Read the working paper: What are the relationships between ageing, depression, non-communicable diseases and disabilities in South Africa? Old age is often characterised by poor health due to isolation, morbidities...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Werner Peña Read Werner Peña’s working paper ‘What are the determinants of chronic and transient poverty in El Salvador?’ The situation of being in poverty can be experienced by households with different intensities over time: some can be trapped...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 27, 2017 | Comment
Professor David Hulme pays tribute to Dr Saman Kelegama The sad news of Dr Saman Kelegama’s untimely death had shocked friends and academic collaborators across the world. At Manchester, as elsewhere, we feel the loss. Our condolences go out to all of his family...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 24, 2017 | Comment
This blog originally appeared on the Manchester Migration Lab website By Dr Tanja R. Müller This post originally appeared on Tanja R. Müller’s blog Aspiration and Revolution In Germany, it is pre-election time. And the leader of the main opposition party, Social...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 22, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Dr Eleni Sifaki, Research Associate, Global Development Institute The geography of global development in the 21st century is shifting. Horner and Hulme call for a shift in academic development studies and development policy from ‘international development’ to...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 21, 2017 | Comment
Chris Jordan, Communications and Impact Manager, Global Development Institute For most development-focused academics, the main reason they join the profession is to contribute towards positive social change. Contrary to the increasingly outdated image of out of touch...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 20, 2017 | Comment
Dr Joanne C. Jordan, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK Climate change is one of the biggest environmental and development challenges of the 21st century. But we will not all face this challenge in the same way, as the impacts of climate change...
