by GDI | Jun 27, 2025 | Comment
by Saumik Paul (Senior Lecturer in Global Development, GDI) and Andy Sumner (Professor of International Development, KCL) Understanding inequality trends remains central to assessing both development progress and global justice. Two major dimensions—inequality...
by GDI | Mar 13, 2024 | Comment, News
Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment at GDI, and James K. Boyce, University of Amherst, Massachusetts, have jointly won an inaugural prize “for their ground-breaking work in the field of social and environmental inequalities”. The growing...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 8, 2020 | Comment
Prof David Hulme, Global Development Institute Oxfam’s reports on inequality have grabbed the headlines over the years – “8 men own the same wealth as 3.6 billion people” won global media coverage a few years ago and challenged many of the world’s business elite at...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 27, 2018 | Events
Welcome from the Global Development Institute at The University of Manchester We are very pleased and honoured to welcome you all to the 2018 Development Studies Association Annual Conference here at The University of Manchester. We are delighted to host this...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 21, 2018 | Comment, Research Findings
The Development Studies Association Annual Conference is being hosted by the Global Development Institute from 27-29th June. The conference will focus on inequalities. Ahead of the conference, we are running a series of blogs from attendees looking at the key issues...
