by Global Development Institute | May 6, 2016 | Comment
By Dan Silver, Diana Mitlin and Sophie King “We are poor, but we are not hopeless. We know what we are doing”. This is Alinah Mofokeng, one of three activists from the South African alliance of community organizations and support NGOs affiliated to Shack / Slum...
by Global Development Institute | May 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
What’s the current focus of your research? My research focuses on the priorities of low income households in urban areas, looking at what’s happening and how things can be improved. I’m pretty obsessive about maintaining this focus so it doesn’t really change. In...
by Global Development Institute | May 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
On 19-20 May the GDI will be hosting a conference on ‘Imagining Solidarity: Visual representations of development in public campaigns’. The aim of this conference is to explore the realm of the visual to examine how the complex relations of embodied,...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 29, 2016 | Comment, Uncategorized
By Aarti Krishnan, PhD researcher, Global Development Institute As clouds scudded across a beautiful crimson sky, I remember sensing a knot in the pit of my stomach. To be honest, it was the anticipation of going to an unknown country, but I do, however, recall...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
Judith Hayer, The University of Oxford, spoke as part of the Global Development Seminar Series. Her lecture examines data from a long-term study of villages north west of Tiruppur to compare manual and low-skilled employment options open to people who do not have...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 22, 2016 | Events, Uncategorized
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by Global Development Institute | Apr 21, 2016 | Events, Uncategorized
Climate change intensifies the exclusion suffered by the poorest, but what needs to be done to support the people of Bangladesh to respond to one of the biggest environmental and development challenges of the 21st century? Dr Joanne Jordan from the GDI spent months in...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 21, 2016 | Uncategorized
The Global Development Institute’s Dr Nicola Banks spoke about her latest research into youth poverty in Arusha, Tanzania. The lecture looks at what the experience of urban poverty means for young people and their social and economic development, highlighting...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
So the Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID) team are back in Manchester following a great week in Ghana. It was a hot and steamy 30 degrees in the vibrant city of Accra and during a brief power cut we realised how thankful we were for the AC! Debate and...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 14, 2016 | Events, Research Findings
By Judith Krauss What is politics? A loaded question which might draw any number of diverse and partly conflicting answers. Yet if you were indeed going to open this particular can of worms, it would be extremely helpful to have Tania Murray Li available to offer her...
