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...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 12, 2016 | Comment, Policy
By Tomas Frederiksen This post critiquing an article in Harvard Business Review article caught my attention recently. I’m catching up on old reading here but this article rehashes the perennial debate about ‘the business case for CSR’. The HBR article basically argues...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 30, 2016 | Events
The Global Development Institute is helping to convene seven panels at the annual DSA conference in September. The focus of the conference is politics in development. For full details of each session and to proposed a paper, click on the title. Power, politics and...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 24, 2016 | Uncategorized
By Daniele Malerba Inequality is a topic of major interest nowadays, with recent reports showing that the richest 62 individuals possess more wealth than the bottom half of the global population. But this attention has not always been there. One the main drivers of...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
Professor Uma Kothari’s lecture was part of ‘Your Manchester Insights’. Share this: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Click to print...
