Global Development Institute
Why do well-meaning developmental policies so often fail? Consider the recent collapse of the well-constructed peace agreement between the Colombian government and FARC guerillas. Likewise, privati...
Lecture with Matthew Greenslade, Economist and former employee of the UK Department for International Development
Matthew Greenslade describes the damage being done by the World Bank's insistence ...
Chair: David Hulme (GDI)
Speaker: Winnie Byanyima (UNAIDS)
Geopolitical tensions are leading many to question whether the rules-based order is giving way to the zero-sum power politics that cha...
In our fourth plenary, members of GDI’s International Advisory Board draw together critical reflections from the conference:
• Amani Abou-Zeid, Former African Union Commissioner
• Tony Bebbington...
Chair: Diana Mitlin (GDI)
International Development After Aid: On the Future of Development Cooperation - Ken Opalo, Georgetown University
The New Geopolitics of Development Cooperation in a G-1 ...
"By 2026, it is undeniable that the world is transitioning from unipolarity toward a tumultuous, confusing, and contested multipolarity. The multipolar age demands a shift in mentality. There needs...
Over the past decade, American hegemony switched from the Washington Consensus’ sustained attack on state capacity and
developmentalism to the Wall Street Consensus, a state-Big Finance partnership...
Our opening plenary of the GDI conference was chaired by Prof Seth Schindler (GDI) and delivered by Lee Jones (Queen Mary University of London) and Yuen Yuen Ang (Johns Hopkins University).
To rea...
In this episode, Dr Mohammed Ibrahim is joined by Dr Alex Moyem Kombat, Head of Research and Policy of the Ghana Revenue Authority and two GDI PGRs, Anifat Ibrahim and Mohammed Damba, to discuss do...
In this video Professor Seth Schindler discusses the first theme of the conference: The new geopolitics of global d/Development.
Learn more about the event and sign up for the waiting list here: h...
Listen to Professor Nicola Banks discuss one of our conference themes ahead of the event in April.
Learn more about the conference and join the waiting list here: https://blog.gdi.manchester.ac.u...
GDI Lecture with Professor Brett Christophers, discussing his book The Price Is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet
In this video, Hallsworth Research Fellow Dr Elisa Gambino discusses one of the three themes of the conference: Thinking from a global development perspective: potential and pitfalls
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Prof Sam Hickey, Head of Institute at GDI, talks about the conference we are hosting on 13-14 April 2026.
Watch to learn more about the themes of the conference and the speakers that will join us ...
GDI Lecture: The Myth of Deindustrialisation and the Possibilities for Development within Industrial Civilisation, Andrew Fischer, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
This lecture draw...
Listen to a discussion between Dr Osman Ouattara and two of our current PhD researchers, Mahtab Uddin and Matilda Kabutey-Ongor.
In this video they discuss their own research and the new pathway ...
Part of the GDI Lecture Series. Organised in partnership with GDI Students for Palestine
The political landscape in the MENA region looks bleaker today than ever before. This is in sharp contrast ...
Read open access: https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/diverse-transnational-care
Transnational care practices differ and are not available to everyone in equal measure. Drawing on intervie...
In this video, GDI undergrad Ellen Ahn tells us about her week in New York as part of the United Nations College Leaders Programme for Korea. Ellen reflects on her favourite parts of the internship...
Dr. Amiera Sawas is Head of Research and Policy at the Fossil Fuel Treaty Initiative. She's a feminist researcher and advocate who has been working at the intersections of climate change, gender ju...