by Global Development Institute | Jul 22, 2019 | Comment, Events
One of our PhD candidates, Mapenzie Tauzie decided to organise an activity in Zomba, Malawi – the community from where her field researchers came from. The result was a spectacular display of football and netball for young people which went on for ten weeks,...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 22, 2019 | Comment
Tomas Frederiksen, Lecturer in International Development, Global Development Institute and Matthew Himley, Associate Professor of Geography, Illinois State University The extractive industry has a brutish reputation. Since the 1980s, along with big dams, ‘extractives’...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 17, 2019 | Comment, Uncategorized
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute 16 July 2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with Apollo 11. That scientific and engineering pinnacle of planetary exploration has gone on to transform our place in the universe and...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 8, 2019 | Comment
Registration is open for our flagship international conference convened by the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre on ‘From politics to power? Rethinking the politics of development’ which will be held from 9 – 11 September 2019 in...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 8, 2019 | Comment
Richard Heeks, Professor of Development Informatics Data is playing an ever-growing role in international development. But what lens can we use to analyse the impact of data on development? The emerging field of “data justice” offers some valuable ideas but they have...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 1, 2019 | Comment
GDI’s Oliver Bakewell is a key member of the Research and Evidence Facility on Migration in the Horn of Africa – and features in a new video outlining the project: The project focuses on a range of policy relevant migration issues in the Horn of Africa, including the:...
