by Global Development Institute | Feb 5, 2016 | Events
The Global Development Institute is hosting an “in conversation” event, marking the launch of Gender Challenges, a three volume compendium of Professor Bina Agarwal’s path-breaking selected papers. Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment at...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 4, 2016 | Comment, Uncategorized
Research Director of the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre Professor Kunal Sen has published a new book: Out of the Shadows? The Informal Sector in Post-Reform India. Here he investigates how the poor can be brought into formalised economies....
by Global Development Institute | Feb 1, 2016 | Research Findings
By Armando Barrientos and Edmund Amann. Originally published in Policy In Focus, a publication of the UNDP’s International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth. As the world begins to wake up to the dire social and economic consequences of rising inequality, we...
by developmentatmanchester | Jan 19, 2016 | Comment, Events
by David Hulme, Professor, Global Development Institute Oxfam’s annual inequality report finds that extreme polarisation – the ownership of global assets by a tiny minority of the world’s population – has increased. Now, only the 62 richest people in the world own the...
by developmentatmanchester | Jan 6, 2016 | Research Findings, Uncategorized
By Bazoumana Ouattara, University of Manchester; Eric Strobl, École Polytechnique; Jan Vermeiren, Kinetic Analysis Corporation and Stacia Yearwood, Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility. Worryingly losses associated with tropical storms have risen considerably...
by developmentatmanchester | Jan 4, 2016 | Comment, Policy, Uncategorized
By Jonas Amtoft Bruun “We have an agreement”. Those redeeming words from French foreign minister Laurent Fabius in the evening of Saturday the 12th of December unleashed a wave of standing ovations from high level UN staff, delegates and observers from business and...
by developmentatmanchester | Dec 22, 2015 | Comment, Uncategorized
Students on the MSc International Development programme travel to Uganda each year to conduct relevant research projects: In the final blog post in the series by students, Emily Olson examines if universal access to primary education means that more children are...
by developmentatmanchester | Dec 21, 2015 | Comment, Uncategorized
Students on the MSc International Development programme travel to Uganda each year to conduct relevant research projects: In the second of three posts by students, Enock Okara outlines the challenges women face in accessing compensation for oil exploration. Watch...
by developmentatmanchester | Dec 18, 2015 | Comment, Policy, Uncategorized
By Cathy Wilcock, Doctoral Researcher, Global Development Institute Socrates and a pig walk into a bar. Socrates orders a fine bottle of claret and argues for hours with the bartender about Romantic poetry. Being infuriated by the bartender’s base reading of...
by developmentatmanchester | Dec 17, 2015 | Comment, Policy
Students on the MSc International Development programme travel to Uganda each year to conduct relevant research projects: In the first of three posts by students, Laura Dempsy reflects upon the difficulties Uganda is facing in its battle to eliminate mother to child...
