by Global Development Institute | Apr 12, 2016 | Comment, Policy
By Tomas Frederiksen This post critiquing an article in Harvard Business Review article caught my attention recently. I’m catching up on old reading here but this article rehashes the perennial debate about ‘the business case for CSR’. The HBR article basically argues...
by Emma Kelly | Mar 1, 2016 | Comment
By Professor David Hulme Last week, I added my name to letter calling for the UK to remain in the EU. You can read the letter, signed by leading development experts, in The Guardian newspaper. I, and my peers signing the letter, believe that for UK development...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 22, 2016 | Comment
By Tanja R. Müller Even as – at least when listening to the media – it seems that Europe faces a unique challenge with the increasing numbers of refugees (or as the British media prefers to call them, towing the government line, migrants), who flee war in Syria and...
by Emma Kelly | Feb 19, 2016 | Comment, Events
By Chris Lyon The secret has been out the bag for a while now. Time was when the very mention of the words ‘inequality’, ‘distribution’, ‘power’, or, god forbid, ‘state’ in polite development conversation would see canapés dropped in shock and waiters scurrying to...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 10, 2016 | Comment
By Tanja Müller The news from Egypt will send shivers around the spines of all those who try to uphold the value of in-depth, in-country fieldwork as, to use Mark Duffield’s term, an ‘art of being in the world’. On a different level, it is yet another indication of...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 4, 2016 | Comment, Uncategorized
Research Director of the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre Professor Kunal Sen has published a new book: Out of the Shadows? The Informal Sector in Post-Reform India. Here he investigates how the poor can be brought into formalised economies....
