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The Global Development Institute has three new Global Challenges Research fund (GCRF) Post-Doctoral Fellows who will be based at the Institute over the next year. The fellowships provide career development opportunities for those at a relatively earl...

GDI Merit Scholar Kwame Kwarteng has taken up his role as General Secretary of The University of Manchester Students’ Union. He was elected as General Secretary in March and took up the post in July. Kwame is the first international student to be ...

Social media use is contributing to poor mental health in Indonesia, research presented in a paper by Sujarwoto Sujarwoto, Gindo Tampubolon and Adi Cilik Pierewan has found. The paper examines the specific effect of social media on mental health i...

A new book by Professor Stephanie Barrientos consolidates more than 10 years of research on contemporary working conditions and gender discrimination in a new book “Gender and Work in global value chains: Capturing the Gains?” Today’s consumer soc...

    When Narendra Modi became India’s prime minister in spring 2014 the Indian economy was in the doldrums. There was a clear policy paralysis in India’s central government, in large part due to the high profile corruption cases that involv...

Giving local communities in Nepal the opportunity to manage their forests has simultaneously reduced deforestation and poverty in the region, new research has shown.   ...

To address this gap, Professor Dan Brockington of the University of Sheffield and Dr Nicola Banks of The University of Manchester set out to map and understand the UK’s development sector. Their research produced new insights that show a sector th...

A team including researchers from The University of Manchester has created the world’s first ever rating system for working conditions in the digital economy. ...

Bangladesh has been a development success story in recent years. The country made remarkable progress in poverty alleviation prior to the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) deadline of 2015 and has over performed on multiple social indicators, such as...

Former New Zealand Prime Minister the Rt Hon Helen Clark spoke on “Women – Equality – Power” to a public audience at The University of Manchester. She spoke on the importance of having women in decision-making positions to increase the prospects of a...

A new book edited by Sarah Bracking, Aurora Fredrikson, Phil Woodhouse, and Sian Sullivan challenges the dominance of economics as the measure of all value. Entitled Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation: creating values that matter, t...

Dr Joanne Catherine Jordan has won a leading award which recognises how she has successfully communicated the purpose, meaning and impact of her research to the public. ...

GDI Alumni Bala Yusuf Yunusa (MSc 2006, PhD 2017) has been appointed Technical Advisor to the Office of the Nigerian President on SDGs. Under this arrangement, he is an employee of United Nations Development Programme but based at the Nigerian Presid...

Juan Miguel Villa completed his PhD research on antipoverty transfer programmes in 2015 with us. He then went to work in a research position in Washington DC at the Inter-American Development Bank and is now returning to his native Colombia in a seni...

A high level delegation from North South University (NSU), Bangladesh visited the Global Development Institute (GDI) on Tuesday 11th September 2018. Established in 1992, NSU was the first private university in Bangladesh. Since its establishment, bot...

You’re joining us at fascinating time for Development Studies. Seismic shifts are taking place globally, nationally and locally. While headline poverty rates continue to fall, will growing inequality choke off the benefits of growth? In increasingly ...

The Global Development Institute is pleased to welcome new researchers to support our growing range of work. Dr Shamel Azmeh - former GDI masters student and PhD researcher now returns to GDI as a Lecturer in Technology, Labour and Production. Sha...

Following Africa's longest-running civil war, South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in July 2011. Unfortunately conflict in South Sudan did not come to an end with Independence: civil war broke out in 2013 following a clash between the President...

The rise of South-South trade, involving Southern lead firms and end markets, raises a critical challenge for global governance: how can Southern markets be more effectively aligned with ethical and social standards that result in decent work outcome...

A black Bond? It’s an apparently unproblematic and straightforward question, right? Well, not quite. When suggested quite quizzically by a colleague, it sparked a series of reactionary positions in the staff room, especially from the 007 traditionali...

The afterglow of France winning the 2018 World Cup tournament on July 15 should be gone by now. But the arguments over France’s 23-man squad, with as many as 15 players with African roots, rage on. The victory has ignited social commentaries on race,...

There are millions of platform workers globally, doing work outsourced or organised via digital platforms or apps in the gig economy. Previous research has shown that platforms often operate in relatively unregulated ways, and can encourage a ‘race t...

Rising sea levels and worse cyclones forced Bangladeshis to take the lead in combating climate change, at home and internationally. Their story has become open access and can be downloaded for free. When 500,000 Bangladeshis fled to huge concrete ...

The Global Development Institute hosted a visit from the former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff yesterday (Thursday 21 June) as part of a study tour she is undertaking across the UK. Rousseff is a Brazilian economist and politician who served a...

Senior Lecturer at the Global Development Institute Seth Schindler has been awarded an ESRC grant for a new research project looking at deindustrialisation in the South, the first large-scale multi-site comparative research project of its kind. De...

GDI researcher Nicola Banks is working with the Dutch government in shaping research that will help them reorient their funding of NGOs in a way that helps them to think and act more politically. Dr Nicola Banks' ESRC funded research has found tha...

Two alumnae of the Global Development Institute have been recognised for their work at the Study UK Alumni Awards. Two alumnae of the Global Development Institute have been recognised for their work at the British Councils Study UK Alumni Awards. ...

A researcher from The University of Manchester's Global Development Institute has been part of a team testing an innovative new intervention in Indonesian healthcare, which could improve life expectancy in Indonesia. In rural Indonesia, healthcare...

The University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute is pleased to announce three PhD studentships to fund doctoral research on priority issues related to its FutureDAMS Research Centre The Centre has been established with a grant of £8 mil...

In the last 10 years, the number of countries with a national development plan has almost doubled. In 2006, about 60 countries had a national development plan. By 2016, the number of plans grew to 116 and now includes some of the world’s fastest grow...