by Global Development Institute | May 18, 2016 | Comment
By Judith Krauss, Post-doctoral Associate, Global Development Institute We were privileged to welcome back to Manchester three of our own: as part of its annual postgraduate research conference, the School of Environment, Education and Development, home to the Global...
by Global Development Institute | May 16, 2016 | Comment
Chris Lyon is a PhD candidate at GDI. The working title of his thesis is Exploring a relational conception of social justice: liberals, radicals, and Brazil’s ‘new social contract’ With the world’s attention trained on Brazil ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics, its...
by Global Development Institute | May 12, 2016 | Comment
Dr Jennifer Bair, University of Colorado at Boulder, recently gave a keynote lecture as part of the Brown/Manchester Workshop on Global Production Networks and Social Upgrading: Labour and Beyond. The workshop, funded by the Watson Institute’s Brown...
by Global Development Institute | May 10, 2016 | Comment, Events
By Aarti Krishnan, PhD researcher As 8000 geographers, and a smattering of development and politics scientists descended on the streets of San Francisco for the recent Annual American Association of Geographers (the crème de la crème of geography conferences), the...
by Global Development Institute | May 9, 2016 | Comment, Policy
Global Development Institute Professors David Hulme and Kunal Sen have joined with 300 other top economists, calling on world leaders to “lift the veil of secrecy” surrounding tax havens. The letter, reproduced in full below, comes ahead of a global Anti-Corruption...
by Global Development Institute | May 6, 2016 | Comment
By Dan Silver, Diana Mitlin and Sophie King “We are poor, but we are not hopeless. We know what we are doing”. This is Alinah Mofokeng, one of three activists from the South African alliance of community organizations and support NGOs affiliated to Shack / Slum...
