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 18, 2016 | Events
Watch the official launch of the Global Development Institute, with Oxfam’s Winnie Byanyima, the President & Vice-Chancellor of the University of Manchester, Nancy Rothwell and David Hulme, director of the Global Development Institute: Share...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 18, 2016 | Events
[View the story “The Global Development Institute Launch” on Storify] Thanks to GDI master’s student Rachel Louise Sadler for developing this story. Share this:TwitterFacebookEmailPrintLike this:Like...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 5, 2016 | Events
The Global Development Institute is hosting an “in conversation” event, marking the launch of Gender Challenges, a three volume compendium of Professor Bina Agarwal’s path-breaking selected papers. Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment at...
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 | Dec 2, 2015 | Comment, Events
GDI Director Professor David Hulme spoke last week at our Global Development Seminar Series. David discussed the recently announced Sustainable Development Goals, and whether they are merely a continuation of the evolving UN “Global Goals” process or demonstrate that...
