by Global Development Institute | Jan 16, 2017 | Comment
By Rory Horner Have we all been “divided and conquered” by the super-rich? Political divides and polarisation were highly apparent in the UK and the US in 2016, and are highly prominent elsewhere in Europe. Votes for Brexit and Donald Trump have brought renewed...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 9, 2017 | Comment
The Global Development Institute was saddened to hear of the recent death of Sir Tony Atkinson – a long-standing leader on inequality research including the recently published ‘Inequality: What is to be done?’ At a time when of a growing consensus identifying...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 3, 2017 | Comment
Rory Horner begins our series looking at some of the big trends in development to look out for in 2017. 2016 was, by many accounts, a strange year. Contemporaneously with the often discussed “rising powers”, 2016 saw the growth and resonance of “declinism” in what...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 19, 2016 | Comment
By Chris Lyon, PhD researcher at the Global Development Institute. The working title of his thesis is Exploring a relational conception of social justice: liberals, radicals, and Brazil’s ‘new social contract’. Much of IRIBA’s research has been cautiously optimistic,...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 5, 2016 | Comment
Professor David Hulme, Executive Director, Global Development Institute Interesting and alarming food for thought? And, yes. You read correctly. Could equality (not inequality and alienation) be the true crux of the matter when it comes to understanding the election...
