by GDI | Apr 30, 2026 | Comment
Earlier this month, the Global Development Institute held a conference asking, ‘What is the Future of Global Development?’ We welcomed a host of scholars, practitioners, and students from across the world, enjoying lively debate about the critical juncture in which we...
by GDI | Apr 22, 2026 | Comment
Featured image: Visit to local entrepreneur Charles Ashimwe’s fruit tree and vegetable plantation Between the 21st of March and the 3rd of April 2026, the University of Manchester took Development Studies master’s students on its annual field trip to Rwanda. Rwanda,...
by GDI | Mar 31, 2026 | Comment
To mark the publication of Professor Uma Kothari’s new co-authored book, Stories of Place: Geographies of Meaning, Memory and Connection, we interviewed Uma about the story behind the book and the relationship between stories and the places from which they emerge. In...
by GDI | Mar 24, 2026 | Comment
by Professor Nicola Banks Yesterday I was sad to read of even further declines in UK giving over the past year. Today I am furious to hear what UK aid cuts will look like in practice. And if you’re following global development headlines, you might feel the same way....
by GDI | Mar 5, 2026 | Comment
by Louisa Hann If today’s Silicon Valley billionaires are to be believed, AI is about to supercharge your quality of life, boost your productivity, and provide access to “wildly abundant” intelligence. As Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI puts it, the future “can be vastly...
by GDI | Feb 27, 2026 | Comment
By Lujia Feng, Programme Director: MSc Human Resource Management (International Development) On Thursday, 12 February 2026, we were delighted to welcome Kashif Taj, Apprenticeships Leader at IBM UK, to speak with our MSc Human Resource Management (International...
