GDI Lecture: Spatial inequality in African political economy with Cathy Boone
Listen or watch Cathy Boone, Professor of Comparative Politics at the London School of Economics and Political Science, discuss spatial inequality in African political economy: rethinking uneven development. Note: This article gives the views of the author/academic...
Open access book: The Politics of Social Protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
“The recent creation or expansion of programmes of social protection all across East and Southern Africa raises intriguing and important issues for scholars of the region’s politics. This book, with its admirable combination of empirical substance and analytic...
Uma Kothari announces RGS with IBG 2020 conference theme
Professor Uma Kothari is chairing the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers) 2020 conference which will be held at the Society in London, from Tuesday 1 to Friday 4 September 2020. The theme Uma has selected for the conference...
Climate action: why developed countries should track imported emissions, and how to make certification and labelling work for developing countries
Aarti Krishnan, Research Fellow, Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester, and Simon Maxwell, Senior Research Associate of ODI Developed countries are making progress in reducing carbon emissions – and Government regulation of the private sector is...![State [in]capacity and national development](https://blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/3.jpg)