by Global Development Institute | Mar 21, 2017 | Events
Eleven academics from the Global Development Institute are helping to convene seven panels at the annual DSA conference in September. The 2017 Development Studies Association Conference will be held at the University of Bradford from the 6-8th September and will focus...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 16, 2017 | Research Findings
Each month we bring you the latest publications from the researchers at the Global Development Institute. Books Kunal Sen has published a new book with Sabyasachi Kar: The Political Economy of India’s Growth Episodes David Lawson, David Hulme and Lawrence Ado-Kofie...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 15, 2017 | Comment
By Sally Cawood, PhD researcher at the Global Development Institute By 2030, it is predicted that nearly five billion (60%) of the world’s population will live in cities[1]. Whilst these spatial shifts are occurring globally, the pace and complexity of urbanisation in...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 10, 2017 | Research Findings
Ritam Sengupta, Richard Heeks, Sumandro Chattapadhyay and Christopher Foster recently published a new Working Paper entitled ‘Exploring Big Data for Development: An Electricity Sector Case Study from India’. You can read the paper, and other Development...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 9, 2017 | Events
On Wednesday, 22 February, Professor Sylvia Chant gave a lecture entitled ‘Gender, Urbanisation and Poverty: Principles, Practice, and the Space of Slums ’. You can listen to the lecture in full or watch the live stream below Find out more about the other talks in our...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 9, 2017 | Comment
By Professor David Hulme, Executive Director Global Development Institute The Trump administration looks set to propose “fairly dramatic reductions” to America’s aid programme later this month. This is unsurprising given the extreme nationalism of his...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 7, 2017 | Comment
This International Women’s Day 2017 the campaign theme is #BeBoldForChange – a call for us to forge a better, gender inclusive working world. The Global Development Institute’s Professor Stephanie Barrientos has been researching the sustainability of global...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 6, 2017 | Comment
By Fortunate Machingura, a Global Challenges Research Fund Postdoctoral Fellow at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester. Fortunate holds a PhD in Development Policy and Management from the University of Manchester The aphorism that the populations...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 2, 2017 | Research Findings
By Professor Richard Heeks Taking a longer-term view, the relationship between digital ICTs and international development can be divided into three paradigms – “pre-digital”, “ICT4D”, and “digital development” – that rise and fall over time (see Figure below). The...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 1, 2017 | Comment, Events, Policy
By Professor David Hulme, Executive Director of the Global Development Institute I recently had the privilege of delivering a lecture at the IUB University and ICCCAD in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Much of the presentation was based on the recent book Bangladesh Confronts...
