Professor Branko Milaonvic spoke at the Global Development Institute on ‘Globalization, migration and the future of the middle classes’. Branko is a leading scholar on income inequality. He is Presidential fellow at City University of New York, Visiting Presidential...
Big and Open Data for International Development workshop Tuesday 12 July 2016, Centre for Development Informatics, University of Manchester, UK This is a call for abstracts/presentations on big and open data for international development, with an initial deadline of...
Some of our Master’s students are currently on fieldwork in Uganda. This video, of the March 2015 trip, gives an insight into their visit. Last year three of our students also wrote blogs about the fieldwork they carried out. You can read them now. Is universal...
Dr Tomas Frederiksen spoke last week as part of the Global Development Seminar Series. Tomas discussed whether corporate social responsibility in the mining sector can deliver development. Listen to the talk: The Global Development Seminar Series brings together...
By Gale Raj-Reichert Malaysia is a country which has experienced tremendous economic growth from the 1970s onwards, moving to upper-middle income status in the mid-1990s (Felipe 2012). One of the key industrial sectors that led its transition out of an agrarian...
The use of public office for private gain benefits a powerful few while imposing costs on large swathes of society. Transparency International publishes an annual Corruption Perceptions Index which measures the perceived levels of public-sector graft by aggregating...
By Professor David Hulme Last week, I added my name to letter calling for the UK to remain in the EU. You can read the letter, signed by leading development experts, in The Guardian newspaper. I, and my peers signing the letter, believe that for UK development...
By Laura Hirst An initial investigation of fire and rescue services, community participation and humanitarian assistance Fire risk and the impacts of fire hazard in resource poor urban settlements in the ‘Global South’ are hugely neglected within academic discourse,...
The dynamics of well being, aspirations and politics in Egypt. By Dr Solava Ibrahim What is the impact of the Arab Spring on Egyptian citizens? How did the uprisings affect people’s aspirations and their relationship with the state? The literature on the Arab...
Watch Professor David Hulme as he addresses at Bradford University on the shift that has occurred from the Millennium Development Goals. View the slides Our playlist of videos on MDGs and SDGs Share this: Share on X (Opens in new window) X Share on Facebook (Opens in...
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