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In remembrance of Sir Tony Atkinson – a leader in inequality research and thinking

by Global Development Institute | Jan 9, 2017 | Comment

The Global Development Institute was saddened to hear of the recent death of Sir Tony Atkinson – a long-standing leader on inequality research including the recently published ‘Inequality: What is to be done?’ At a time when of a growing consensus identifying...

#DevTrends2017: Will the gendered impacts of climate change be taken seriously?

by Global Development Institute | Jan 5, 2017 | Comment

Joanne Jordan continues our series on the big development trends to look out for in 2017 In 2016 the main focus around climate change issues was on ratifying and maintaining international momentum after the Paris Agreement. In the future I think we need to see much...

#DevTrends2017: Can adaptive management save DFID?

by Global Development Institute | Jan 4, 2017 | Comment

Pablo Yanguas continues our series looking at the big development trends to look out for in 2017 These are difficult times for the foreign aid system. While budgets may still be growing in countries like the UK, the reality of aid is one of dire challenges on two...

#DevTrends2017: Domestic vs. international inequalities

by Global Development Institute | Jan 3, 2017 | Comment

Rory Horner begins our series looking at some of the big trends in development to look out for in 2017. 2016 was, by many accounts, a strange year. Contemporaneously with the often discussed “rising powers”, 2016 saw the growth and resonance of “declinism” in what...

1.5 to stay alive? The Power of Least Developed Countries at UN Climate Talks

by Global Development Institute | Dec 20, 2016 | Comment, Uncategorized

By Robbie Watt, Global Development Institute Less developed countries that are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and which have very low greenhouse gas emissions, make up a substantial majority of nations represented at the United Nations Framework...

Brazil and corruption: don’t hate the player, hate the game?

by Global Development Institute | Dec 19, 2016 | Comment

By Chris Lyon, PhD researcher at the Global Development Institute. The working title of his thesis is Exploring a relational conception of social justice: liberals, radicals, and Brazil’s ‘new social contract’. Much of IRIBA’s research has been cautiously optimistic,...

Free online seminar on ‘Development in the Next Ten Years: Challenges and Opportunities’

by Global Development Institute | Dec 16, 2016 | Comment

The University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute would like to invite you to participate in a free online seminar on ‘Development in the Next Ten Years: Challenges and Opportunities’. The seminar celebrates the launch of the new Global Development Institute...

Post-Brexit and Development: How to make the UK’s next trade regime development-friendly?

by Global Development Institute | Dec 15, 2016 | Comment

By Virgi Sari, PhD researcher at The Global Development Institute Following the vote to leave its natural trade partner, the EU, the British government is now faced with the challenging task of designing its new trade policies, including those with developing...

Welcome to the Manchester Migration Lab!

by Global Development Institute | Dec 14, 2016 | Comment

On Monday 5th December the University Of Manchester hosted it’s first Manchester Migration Lab workshop to identify and discuss the range and depth of work on migration being carried out by colleagues across a range of schools and institutes. Following an in-depth...

‘The Infiltrator’ versus ‘The Refugee’

by Global Development Institute | Dec 12, 2016 | Comment

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