by Global Development Institute | Sep 10, 2019 | Uncategorized
We are delighted to announce the autumn line-up for our GDI Lecture series. The series brings leading development thinkers to Manchester to discuss their latest research and ideas. Lectures are free and open to staff, students and the general public. All the lectures...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 30, 2019 | News, Research Findings, Uncategorized
Dr Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute Indonesia is the fourth most populous country with more than 210 million people, undergoing wrenching demographic and epidemiologic transitions. The country is young, though its adult population is...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Daniel Díaz Vera, PhD Researcher, Global Development Institute For many people, the city of Medellin conjures images of drug traffickers, horrible murders and chaos. That image is probably due to series such as Netflix’s Narcos, rather than the current situation in...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
Dr Adnan Naseemullah of King College London, recently visited GDI to discuss his new book, Development After Statism: Industrial Firms and the Political Economy of South Asia. The book discusses industrial development in a new era of drastically constricted state...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 17, 2019 | Comment, Uncategorized
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute 16 July 2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with Apollo 11. That scientific and engineering pinnacle of planetary exploration has gone on to transform our place in the universe and...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 10, 2019 | Comment, Uncategorized
By Tanja R. Müller Fittingly, a few days since I returned from a visit to Eritrea that coincided with the 28th celebration of Eritrean independence on 24th May, an academic article I wrote in November 2018 about the rapprochement between Eritrea and Ethiopia has just...
