Students on the MSc International Development programme travel to Uganda each year to conduct relevant research projects: In the second of three posts by students, Enock Okara outlines the challenges women face in accessing compensation for oil exploration. Watch...
By Cathy Wilcock, Doctoral Researcher, Global Development Institute Socrates and a pig walk into a bar. Socrates orders a fine bottle of claret and argues for hours with the bartender about Romantic poetry. Being infuriated by the bartender’s base reading of...
Students on the MSc International Development programme travel to Uganda each year to conduct relevant research projects: In the first of three posts by students, Laura Dempsy reflects upon the difficulties Uganda is facing in its battle to eliminate mother to child...
By Dr. Tanja Müller I just had an article published in Africa Spectrum on Universal Rights versus Exclusionary Politics, using aspirations and despair among Eritrean refugees in Tel Aviv as the case study. This article was originally submitted to a different Journal...
The first semester of the Global Development Seminar Series was brought to a close with a fascinating lecture from Professor Ravi Kanbur last week. Professor Kanbur questioned if utilitarianism is really at odds with egalitarian ends, particularly for critical policy...
By Dr Gale Raj-Reichert In recent years, there have been numerous labour violations in the global electronics industry. They include factory worker suicides, forced labour, child labour, excessive over-time, poisonings, illnesses, and deaths from chemical exposure....
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