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....
by developmentatmanchester | Jan 19, 2016 | Comment, Events
by David Hulme, Professor, Global Development Institute Oxfam’s annual inequality report finds that extreme polarisation – the ownership of global assets by a tiny minority of the world’s population – has increased. Now, only the 62 richest people in the world own the...
by developmentatmanchester | Jan 4, 2016 | Comment, Policy, Uncategorized
By Jonas Amtoft Bruun “We have an agreement”. Those redeeming words from French foreign minister Laurent Fabius in the evening of Saturday the 12th of December unleashed a wave of standing ovations from high level UN staff, delegates and observers from business and...
by developmentatmanchester | Dec 22, 2015 | Comment, Uncategorized
Students on the MSc International Development programme travel to Uganda each year to conduct relevant research projects: In the final blog post in the series by students, Emily Olson examines if universal access to primary education means that more children are...
