by Global Development Institute | Feb 25, 2019 | Comment, Uncategorized
In this episode Chris Jordan, GDI’s Communications & impact Manager, talks to social assistance expert Professor Armando Barrientos. They discuss why Armando decided to specialise in social assistance and how it has changed over the last 20 years. Professor...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 12, 2019 | Comment, News, Policy
By Heiner Janus, German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) and PhD researcher at the Global Development Institute and Dr. Niels Keijzer, DIE A new report on the future of “Global Britain” proposes several radical reforms of the...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 11, 2019 | Comment
The Global Development Institute (GDI) is pleased to announce the availability of ten scholarships for distance learning, funded by the Commonwealth Scholarships Commission (CSC). These are for applicants from developing Commonwealth countries, covering all tuition...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 8, 2019 | Comment
Listen or watch Professor Stephan Haggard, UC SanDiego, discusses development states. You can download Stephan’s new book on developmental states for free until 14 Feb. Listen or watch to the lecture in full below. You can subscribe to the podcast on: Spotify...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 4, 2019 | Comment
Listen or watch Moira V. Faul, Université de Genève, Switzerland and Jordan Tchilingirian, University of Bath, talk about ‘What social network analysis can tell us about multi-stakeholder partnerships’ Listen or watch to the lecture in full below. You can...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 25, 2019 | Comment, News, Research Findings
By Rory Horner and Matthew Alford, January 2019 In a new paper in the GDI Working Paper Series we argue that the state-GVC nexus is, and will continue to be, especially significant in shaping development outcomes. Research on global value chains (GVCs) has broken with...
