by Global Development Institute | Feb 22, 2016 | Comment
By Tanja R. Müller Even as – at least when listening to the media – it seems that Europe faces a unique challenge with the increasing numbers of refugees (or as the British media prefers to call them, towing the government line, migrants), who flee war in Syria and...
by Emma Kelly | Feb 19, 2016 | Comment, Events
By Chris Lyon The secret has been out the bag for a while now. Time was when the very mention of the words ‘inequality’, ‘distribution’, ‘power’, or, god forbid, ‘state’ in polite development conversation would see canapés dropped in shock and waiters scurrying to...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 18, 2016 | Events
Watch the official launch of the Global Development Institute, with Oxfam’s Winnie Byanyima, the President & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester, Nancy Rothwell and David Hulme, director of the Global Development Institute: Share this: Click to...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 18, 2016 | Events
[View the story “The Global Development Institute Launch” on Storify] Thanks to GDI master’s student Rachel Louise Sadler for developing this story. Share this: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
By Julia Taub Many people often wonder what they will do when they finish their studies. I spent most of my master’s year worrying about what would be next. Would I be able to get a job? Would this master’s help? Over the last few months my questions have been...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 10, 2016 | Comment
By Tanja Müller The news from Egypt will send shivers around the spines of all those who try to uphold the value of in-depth, in-country fieldwork as, to use Mark Duffield’s term, an ‘art of being in the world’. On a different level, it is yet another indication of...
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...
