by Global Development Institute | Aug 26, 2016 | Comment
Fortunate Machingura, former PhD student at the Global Development Institute This blog has been republished from the Overseas Development Institute and was written by Fortunate Machingura, a GDI alumna who completed her PhD in Development Policy and...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
Last night we teamed up with the Manchester Museum, to premier the documentary ‘The Lived Experience of Climate Change: A Story of One Piece of Land in Dhaka’. The event was part of the Museum’s Climate Control season, which seeks to not just educate people...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 24, 2016 | Comment
What is the current focus of your research? My research tries to understand the connections between climate change, vulnerability and complex notions of risk. For the past nine years, I’ve been working on those issues in the context of Bangladesh, currently in Dhaka...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 22, 2016 | Comment
Juan, originally from Colombia, completed his PhD in Development Policy and Management at GDI last year and is now living and working as an economist in Washington DC. He has also provided consultancy on a number of international poverty and economics projects, for...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 17, 2016 | Comment
Professor David Hulme, Executive Director, Global Development Institute Back in 1999 the Institute for Development Policy and Management started working with Stuart Rutherford (now an Honorary Research Fellow at the Global Development Institute) on a research project...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 15, 2016 | Comment
By Kunal Sen, Professor Of Development Economics & Policy, Global Development Institute A question of long-standing interest among social scientists is the degree to which an individual’s status in society is determined by the position of one’s parents. In...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 11, 2016 | News
We have big ambitions at the GDI and to make them happen, we need the best research and teaching staff. Following our successful launch, we’re now expanding – and currently have twelve academic positions to fill. If you have an outstanding track record and a...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 10, 2016 | Comment
David Hulme, Executive Director, Global Development Institute I am just back from Japan – a delightful visit with colleagues in Nagoya and Tokyo. The only cloud, in a very sunny week, was hearing about the scale of public support for a populist, nationalist right-wing...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 8, 2016 | Comment
Richard Heeks, Professor of Development Informatics, Global Development Institute At a recent CDI brown-bag discussion on data-intensive development, we hypothesised a mirror-image power dynamic between big data and open data. Open data has an inherent tendency to...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
On Wednesday, 27 July 201, Professor David Hulme, Executive Director of the Global Development Institute spoke at the Japan International Cooperation Agency. His presentation focused on the ideas detailed in his latest book, ‘Should Rich Nations Help The...
