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...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 2, 2017 | Comment, Research Findings
By Aarti Krishnan and Dr Judith Krauss, PhD Researchers at the Global Development Institute In an era when sustainability has become a buzzword, two key questions arise regarding sustainability standards in global production networks: what drivers underlie the...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 1, 2017 | Comment
Following on from Rory Horner’s review of Oxfam’s recent report ‘An economy for the 99%‘, Tanja Müller presents a different view. This post was first published on Tanja’s blog. No doubt, global inequalities are a serious issue, and they...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 31, 2017 | Comment
Dr Tomas Frederiksen is a Lecturer in International Development at GDI and also one of our alumni. He is co-investigator on the ESID natural resources project, focusing on particular on the interactions between political settlements and corporate social responsibility...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 30, 2017 | Comment, Uncategorized
30 October – 1 November 2017, Chancellors Conference Centre, Manchester The University of Manchester’s Migration Lab invites proposals for papers, workshops, exhibitions and performances which respond to the theme of ‘migration in the context of uncertainty and...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 27, 2017 | Comment
David Hulme, Executive Director, Global Development Institute This blog originally appeared in the Development Studies Association bulletin. Starting the year with a moan (or perhaps a rant) did not feel like the sort of thing a ‘President’ (of DSA) should do. But now...
