by Global Development Institute | Aug 15, 2016 | Comment
By Kunal Sen, Professor Of Development Economics & Policy, Global Development Institute A question of long-standing interest among social scientists is the degree to which an individual’s status in society is determined by the position of one’s parents. In...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 10, 2016 | Comment
David Hulme, Executive Director, Global Development Institute I am just back from Japan – a delightful visit with colleagues in Nagoya and Tokyo. The only cloud, in a very sunny week, was hearing about the scale of public support for a populist, nationalist right-wing...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 8, 2016 | Comment
Richard Heeks, Professor of Development Informatics, Global Development Institute At a recent CDI brown-bag discussion on data-intensive development, we hypothesised a mirror-image power dynamic between big data and open data. Open data has an inherent tendency to...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 26, 2016 | Comment
Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID)Research Director Professor Sam Hickey delivered this seminar to The Development Policy Centre at Australia National University on ESID’s research. Which forms of politics matter most, how can these be conceptualised...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 25, 2016 | Comment
Richard Heeks, Professor of Development Informatics In practice, there is a growing role for data within international development: what we can call “data-intensive development”. But what should be the research agenda for this emerging phenomenon? On 12th July 2016,...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 25, 2016 | Comment
We heard that one of our alumni was coming back to Manchester to attend the Big and Open Data Workshop this month, so we sat down with Chris Foster to talk about how why he chose to study at the University of Manchester and what he’s been up to since he graduated. Why...
