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...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 20, 2017 | Comment, Research Findings
The Global Development Institute recently held a workshop examining global inequalities, which brought together four of the Institute’s leading academics to grapple with various aspects of the ‘issue of the moment’. Two central questions were up for discussion: Why is...