by Global Development Institute | Feb 24, 2017 | Comment, Research Findings
Professor Uma Kothari, from the Global Development Institute, recently appeared on The University of Melborne’s online, audio talk show of research, opinion and analysis, Up Close. She discussed how media representations of asylum seekers influence us in how we...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 23, 2017 | Events
On Wednesday, 22 February, Professor Mehrdad Vahabi gave a lecture entitled ‘Predatory states and Economic development ’. You can listen to the lecture in full or watch the live stream below Find out more about the other talks in our #GDILecture series Note: This...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 21, 2017 | Comment, Research Findings
In a new paper, published in the GDI Working Paper series, Rory Horner and David Hulme argue that the macro-scale map of development has shifted from “divergence, big time” to “converging divergence”, which consequently requires a shift from thinking of international...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 20, 2017 | Comment, Research Findings
The Global Development Institute recently held a workshop examining global inequalities, which brought together four of the Institute’s leading academics to grapple with various aspects of the ‘issue of the moment’. Two central questions were up for discussion: Why is...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 16, 2017 | Comment
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by Global Development Institute | Feb 16, 2017 | Events
On Wednesday, 16 February, Professor Lauchlan T. Munro gave a lecture entitled ‘Too close for comfort, relatively speaking? Development NGOs’ dependence on home government funding in comparative perspective’ . You can listen to the lecture in full or watch the...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 15, 2017 | Events
Dhaka is on the front lines of climate change, but what does that mean to the people living in its slums? Research into urban climate change resilience, led Dr Joanne Jordan to team up with the University of Dhaka to produce a Pot Gan, a form of interactive indigenous...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 9, 2017 | Comment
On Wednesday, 8 February, Professor Julien Harou, The University of Manchester gave a lecture entitled ‘Designing Interventions in Developing Water-Energy-Food Systems’. You can listen to the lecture in full or watch the live stream below Find out more...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 9, 2017 | Comment, Events
There’s been lots of discussion recently on the feasibility of introducing Universal Basic Incomes, so we were intrigued to hear that Laura Bannister and Sarah Methven, both Manchester alumni were running a conference to around the idea of doing this on a global,...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 6, 2017 | Comment
Our colleagues in the Alliance Manchester Business School have launched two Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) on Water Supply and Sanitation Policy in Developing Countries, taught by Professor Dale Whittington and Dr Duncan Thomas. The courses will also feature...
