by Global Development Institute | Jun 12, 2019 | Comment
Today, we’re welcoming researchers and activists to Manchester for a conference on the challenges and opportunities of scaling up participation in urban settings. But of the ten keynote speakers we invited from the Global South, only five have received a visa to...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 10, 2019 | Comment, Uncategorized
By Tanja R. Müller Fittingly, a few days since I returned from a visit to Eritrea that coincided with the 28th celebration of Eritrean independence on 24th May, an academic article I wrote in November 2018 about the rapprochement between Eritrea and Ethiopia has just...
by Global Development Institute | May 10, 2019 | Comment
Listen or watch Professor Edgar Pieterse, DST/NRF South African Research Chair in Urban Policy, Director the African Centre for Cities and Professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, all at the University of Cape Town, discuss his forthcoming book...
by Global Development Institute | May 2, 2019 | Comment
Listen or watch Professor Genevieve Le Baron, Co-Director, Sheffield Political Economy Research Intitute (SPERI), The University of Sheffield, discuss the business of forced labour in global agricultural supply chains You can subscribe to the podcast on: Spotify...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 23, 2019 | Comment
Oliver Bakewell focuses on the intersections between migration and mobility and processes of development and change, with an empirical focus on migration within Africa. In this short video, he talks about how academics research can challenge and inform policy and the...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 2, 2019 | Comment
Dr Tanja Müller, Reader/Associate Professor in Development Studies, Global Development Institute Since January 2019, Sudan has seen protests in different parts of the country that quickly moved from anger at worsening economic and social conditions to the demand of...
