by Global Development Institute | Aug 10, 2022 | Uncategorized
The ongoing shift away from fossil fuels has sometimes been framed as a ‘green energy race’ among states, each competing with one another on national missions to develop and deploy renewables. Complicating this picture, various economies across both global North and...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 11, 2022 | Comment
Gilead Teri, PhD researcher, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester On June 21st 2022, while discussing the newly tabled budget draft a member of Tanzanian Parliament raised an underreporting discrepancy between the amount that the Minister of Finance...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dr Nicola Banks, Senior Lecturer in International Development: Urban Development and Global Urbanism Ten years ago (where has time gone?!), myself and David Hulme’s work went as ‘viral’ as an academic piece of work can go when it was picked up and lambasted by Duncan...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the latest episode of the GDI podcast Professor Stefan Dercon talks to Dr Sophie van Huellen. They discuss Stefan’s new book, “Gambling on Development: why some countries win and others lose”, his recent departure from the Foreign, Commonwealth...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 7, 2022 | Comment
Anna Thurlbeck, Postgraduate Researcher, Global Development Institute Taking place on the 5th and 6th of May, this year’s PGR Conference centred around the theme of multidiscipliniarity, chosen to put a spotlight on the extensive breadth of research being undertaken...
