by Global Development Institute | Mar 29, 2023 | Uncategorized
Here GDI’s Nicola Banks and her co-Founder and CEO, Chibwe Masabo Henry, talk about how recent momentum in the sector has led them to build on the University of Manchester’s long-standing research on development NGOs and civil society organisations to launch One World...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 14, 2023 | Comment, Research Findings
By Miguel Kanai, University of Sheffield, Seth Schindler, Global Development Institute and Javier Díaz Bay, Universidad Nacional de Luján Argentina won its third FIFA World Cup last December in Qatar. This major sporting achievement fulfilled team captain Lionel...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 10, 2023 | Comment
Oliver Bakewell, Reader in Migration Studies, Global Development Institute For over twenty years, African diasporas have been increasingly recognised as important actors in development across the continent. A question that often remains unasked is: who is part of this...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 6, 2023 | Comment
Tanja Müller, Professor of Political Sociology, Global Development Institute Reflections from the second emerging findings workshop of the ESRC-funded project: Transnational lived citizenship: practices of citizenship as political belonging among emerging diasporas...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
In this episode of the GDI podcast, Tom Goodfellow and Pritish Behuria discuss Tom’s career and his new book, Politics and the Urban Frontier: Transformation and Divergence in Late Urbanizing East Africa. Despite the rise of global technocratic ideals of...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 22, 2023 | Comment
Bringing together the voices of nine individuals from an archive of over two hundred in-depth interviews with transnational migrants and refugees across five European countries, Finding Home in Europe, a new book edited by Luis Eduardo Pérez Murcia and Sara Bonfanti,...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
This episode comes from the African Cities Research Consortium podcast. Diana Mitlin talks to Ezana Haddis Weldeghebrael about her new paper on how reform coalitions can contribute to inclusive equitable urban change in the global South, her experiences of working...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 9, 2023 | Comment
By a Civil Society Worker The intention of this post is to present challenges and conflicts that arise when managing expectations as part of civil society actors’ work with statusless and marginalised populations. The setting is the civil society landscape in Israel...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Gindo Tampubolon, Senior Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute Maintaining health up to the centenary takes more than just genetic inheritance. Social determinants of health including wealth, income, education, social class and social networks throughout...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 9, 2023 | Comment
Gindo Tampubolon, Global Development Institute and United Nations University – World Institute for Development Economics Research The toll of the Covid-19 pandemic is still being counted. Meanwhile, new variants continue to threaten because the reservoir of people...
