by Global Development Institute | Mar 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
Professor Uma Kothari’s lecture was part of ‘Your Manchester Insights’. Share this: Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email Click to print...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 23, 2016 | Uncategorized
Professor Branko Milaonvic spoke at the Global Development Institute on ‘Globalization, migration and the future of the middle classes’. Branko is a leading scholar on income inequality. He is Presidential fellow at City University of New York, Visiting Presidential...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
Some of our Master’s students are currently on fieldwork in Uganda. This video, of the March 2015 trip, gives an insight into their visit. Last year three of our students also wrote blogs about the fieldwork they carried out. You can read them now. Is universal...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
Dr Tomas Frederiksen spoke last week as part of the Global Development Seminar Series. Tomas discussed whether corporate social responsibility in the mining sector can deliver development. Listen to the talk: The Global Development Seminar Series brings together...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
By Gale Raj-Reichert Malaysia is a country which has experienced tremendous economic growth from the 1970s onwards, moving to upper-middle income status in the mid-1990s (Felipe 2012). One of the key industrial sectors that led its transition out of an agrarian...
by Emma Kelly | Feb 26, 2016 | Uncategorized
The dynamics of well being, aspirations and politics in Egypt. By Dr Solava Ibrahim What is the impact of the Arab Spring on Egyptian citizens? How did the uprisings affect people’s aspirations and their relationship with the state? The literature on the Arab...
