by Global Development Institute | Oct 11, 2016 | Comment
By Judith Krauss, post-doctoral associate at the Rory and Elizabeth Brooks Doctoral College How do you best combat the jitters of starting a PhD? With over a dozen new PhD researchers joining the Rory and Elizabeth Brooks Doctoral College at the University of...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 6, 2016 | Comment
Dr Juan Villa, Honorary Research Fellow, Global Development Institute During my PhD at the Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester my supervisor, Professor Armando Barrientos, would repeatedly say to me “Juan, you cannot end poverty without learning...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 4, 2016 | Comment
By Professor Phil Woodhouse, Global Development Institute Across southern Africa governments watch anxiously for signs that the forecast rains will arrive to break the 2015/16 drought that has devastated the region’s economy and left 40 million people, including 40%...
by Global Development Institute | Sep 15, 2016 | Comment
By Caroline Boyd, Addressing Global Inequalities #ResearchBeacons Campaign Manager Inequality and climate change: Two new and pressing challenges to global development which, together, form a heady mix for researchers, governments and NGOs striving to address global...
by Global Development Institute | Sep 12, 2016 | Comment
The “Mobile Technology for Agricultural and Rural Development in the Global South” Workshop, will be held on 20th October 2016 at The University of Manchester. An initiative of the Centre for Development Informatics (CDI) at the Global Development...
by Global Development Institute | Sep 2, 2016 | Comment
Daniele Malerba is a PhD researcher at the Global Development Institute A large share of the population in Uganda is still economically vulnerable, despite a remarkable reduction in poverty in recent decades. The proportion of the population living with incomes below...
