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...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 12, 2017 | Comment
By Dr Robbie Watt, who gained his PhD from the Global Development Institute and is now a Lecturer in International Politics at The University of Manchester. ‘Ohh, resilience.’ When I mentioned resilience, the topic of that evening’s GDI lecture to social worker...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 11, 2017 | Comment
Professor Diana Mitlin recently visited Ruimsig, Johannesburg, to learn about participatory planning. This research is part of a new network on ‘Achieving Inclusive Cities through Scaling up Participatory Planning in Africa’ which is being led by Prof Mitlin. The...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 7, 2017 | Comment
By Dr Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia, photos by Diego Sainea Dr Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia completed his PhD in 2016 on the experiences of losing and remaking home for those people in Colombia who had been internally displaced as a result of violence. On February 24 2017...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 7, 2017 | Comment
Sustainability is everywhere – but what does it mean in the context of globalised production relations? A panel at the Development Studies Association (DSA) Conference, 6-8 September 2017, will aim to explore this very sustainability-value chain nexus. With a session...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 5, 2017 | Comment
By Stuart Rutherford, Honorary Research Fellow at The Global Development Institute This is the fourth in a series of short articles about the findings of a daily ‘financial diary’ research project in Bangladesh. In this article, we look at the spending on health care...
