by Global Development Institute | Feb 23, 2018 | Comment
Dr Judith Krauss, Lecturer in Environment and Climate Change Can I ask you a question? Do you like chocolate? If your answer is ‘yes’, as for 100% of my focus-group and public-engagement participants, you may be interested to know that the people manufacturing your...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 21, 2018 | Comment, Uncategorized
Gabriele Restelli, PhD researcher, Global Development Institute Monday, June 27th. Beirut, 5.00 AM and the electricity is gone. It is a sweltering 35 degrees even at dawn. Right when I’m thinking to just get up, the phone starts ringing. It is Juliana, our Security...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 20, 2018 | Comment
In the last year, Professor Bina Agarwal has won three major international prizes for her work on gender, agriculture and development: the Agropolis Fondation Louis Malassis International Scientific Prize, the French Ordre du Mérite Agricole, and finally the Balzan...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 15, 2018 | Comment
Edward Ademolu, PhD Researcher, Global Development Institute Watching Marvel’s highly anticipated comic-book film adaptation, Black Panther, was no ordinary tried and tested cinematic experience. Much like the unapologetic showmanship, flamboyance and atmospheric...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 14, 2018 | Comment
Pablo Yanguas, Research Fellow, Effective States and Inclusive Development Why We Lie About Aid is a book born out of bafflement, and not a little bit of frustration. For a long time now I have been baffled about the apparent disconnect between how we – the...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 13, 2018 | Comment
Academics from the Global Development Institute are helping to convene a number of panels at the annual Development Studies Association conference taking place 27-29th June at The University of Manchester. This year’s theme will be Global Inequalities and will...
