What limits the impact of foreign aid programmes? If frontline workers had freedom to experiment could aid effectiveness be improved? What in the aid bureaucracy and political environment constrains flexibility? David Hulme & Nicola Banks lead this exciting discussion with ESID’s Pablo Yanguas, author of new book 'Why we lie about aid' and Daniel Honig of Johns Hopkins University, author of new book 'Navigation by judgement: why and when top down management of foreign aid doesn’t work'. Find...
May 17, 2018•1 hr
This week BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur interviews Kaushik Basu, the former chief economist at the World Bank and economics advisor to the Indian government for the latest in the Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures podcast series.Basu discusses the implications of India’s incredible growth, but ballooning inequality. At the top end, salaries are close to those in OECD countries, while the country is still home to more people living in poverty than any other. He talks about the culture of co...
May 16, 2018•35 min
In this week’s Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures podcast series, BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur interviews Alex Schwartsman is a Brazilian economist and former Director of International Affairs of the Central Bank of Brazil.The interview examines the genesis of Brazil’s recent economic and political crisis. Schwartsman argues that Brazil is trapped by a large government apparatus where policy making has captured by special interest groups, both in the private and public sector. While he su...
May 09, 2018•34 min
In the latest Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures podcast series, BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur interviews Yukon Huang, a former director World Bank Director for China and Russia.They discuss China’s economic prospects and its role in galvanising international action on climate change. How do other members of the BRICs view China and will the Belt and Road initiative upset the current geo-political balance?This weekly podcast mini-series explores the issues and implications of the Rising Po...
May 02, 2018•40 min
Lord Jim O’Neill talks to BBC Hardtalk presenter Stephen Sackur about where the BRIC acronym came from, it’s real world repercussions and where the BRICs go next.This weekly podcast mini-series explores the issues and implications of the Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures research programme. Find out more about the Global Development Institute: Website Blog BlueSky LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Newsletter Intro music Anna Banana by Eaters...
Apr 25, 2018•38 min
Beth Chitekwe-Biti and Ezana Weldeghebrael discuss the recent political changes in Zimbabwe and what they mean for the urban poor. Beth Chitekwe-Biti, an alumna of Global Development Institute, recently joined the SDI secretariat as Deputy Director. Before moving to SDI, Beth was the Founder Director of Dialogue on Shelter, a Zimbabwean NGO that's working in a unique alliance with the Zimbabwe Homeless People's Federation a movement organised in urban poor neighbourhoods to push for secure tenur...
Apr 09, 2018•55 min
A growing body of research points to the ‘Rise of the South’ and the growth of South–South trade. Rory and Khalid consider the implications of the shifting dynamics of global trade and the greater prominence of Southern actors for the conceptualization of global value chains and global production networks. Find out more about the Global Development Institute: Website Blog BlueSky LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Newsletter Intro music Anna Banana by Eaters...
Mar 26, 2018•31 min
Diana Mitlin interview Pablo Yanguas about his new book Why We Lie About Aid which is out now on Zed books. They discuss the aid sector, accountability and the Department for International Development. Professor Diana Mitlin is the Managing Director of the Global Development Institute. Dr Pablo Yanguas is a research fellow with the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research CentreOrder your copy of his new book here: bit.ly/lieaboutaid Find out more about the Global Development Institut...
Feb 16, 2018•37 min
Nicola Banks, Global Development Institute, talks to Fikiri Elias and Sadala Ismail of the youth participatory development NGO Tamasha Vijana. Find out more about the Global Development Institute: Website Blog BlueSky LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Newsletter Intro music Anna Banana by Eaters...
Feb 12, 2018•17 min
Listen to Ha-Joon Chang, The University of Cambridge, in conversation with David Hulme, Executive Director of the Global Development Institute, and Mihai Codreanu, Chair of the Post-Crash Economics Society. They discuss pluralist economics, the need for a curriculum revolution, the future of economics and Ha-Joon Chang’s influential works including 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism and Economics. Find out more about the Global Development Institute: Website Blog BlueSky LinkedIn Fac...
Feb 09, 2018•33 min
As part of the Global Development Institute Lecture Series and in collaboration with the Post-Crash Economics Society Dr Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge, delivered a lecture entitled: Are some countries destined for under-development? Find out more about the Global Development Institute: Website Blog BlueSky LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Newsletter Intro music Anna Banana by Eaters...
Feb 06, 2018•1 hr 3 min
As part of the Global Development Institute Lecture Series Dr Irene Guijt, Head of Research at Oxfam GB, delivered a lecture entitled: Evidence for Influencing: Balancing research integrity and campaign strategy in OxfamWhen using evidence to influence, what compromises have to be made in different contexts due to practical, political and strategic reasons?Dr Guijt presents on challenges and successes, using examples of Oxfam research and campaign strategies from across the world. Find out more ...
Dec 20, 2017•47 min
Effective States and Inclusive Development’s Dr Pablo Yanguas engages Grinnell University’s Professor Bill Ferguson in a thought-provoking discussion about the role of economics in both creating and addressing collective action problems. Bill, the Gertrude B. Austin Professor of Economics, delivered this year’s Adrian Leftwich memorial lecture on a Political Economy approach to collective action, inequality and development. Having begun his career as a neighourhood community organiser in Seattle...
Dec 06, 2017•29 min
Prof Diana Mitlin talks to Kenyan representatives of Shack/Slum Dwellers International who recently visited Global Development Institute Find out more about the Global Development Institute: Website Blog BlueSky LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Newsletter Intro music Anna Banana by Eaters...
Nov 27, 2017•32 min
Dan Brockington, Director of Sheffield Institute for International Development, and Nicola Banks, Global Development Institute, discuss their new research project on development NGO income and expenditure.The conversation is moderated by Chris Jordan. Find out more about the Global Development Institute: Website Blog BlueSky LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Newsletter Intro music Anna Banana by Eaters...
Nov 10, 2017•27 min
Be a fly on the wall as GDI's Executive Director, Prof David Hulme, interviews Prof Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, about globalisation, the sociology of economics and economists, how the decay of liberal norms in the West might impact the rest of the world, what to be concerned about for India, and why China is always a surprise. They also discuss how Prof Rodrik's research has led to examining populism...
Nov 03, 2017•30 min
Prof Dani Rodrik, Harvard University, gave the Global Development Institute Annual Lecture.Populism seems to have come out of nowhere, but economic history and theory provide ample grounds for anticipating that globalisation will produce political backlash. But while the backlash may have been predictable, the specific form it took was less so. Prof Dani Rodrik will distinguish between left-wing and right-wing variants of populism - the first predominant in Latin America and the second in Europe...
Oct 27, 2017•54 min
To coincide with his recent Development Informatics Working Paper Professor Richard Heeks discusses the decent work and the digital gig economy. In this seminar he provides a developing country perspective on employment impacts and standards in online outsourcing, crowdwork and other areas.Read the DI Working Paper: https://www.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/research/publications/di/di-wp71/ Find out more about the Global Development Institute: Website Blog BlueSky LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Newsletter I...
Oct 20, 2017•34 min
As part of the Global Development Institute Lecture Series Prof Diana Mitlin discusses urban development and inequalities."Housing in the Global South faces a number of challenges, including poor construction quality, citizen exclusion, and (in)appropriate standards, leading to significant inequalities. What lessons emerge for tackling urban shelter inequalities from experiences in the Global South? Prof Mitlin will share findings from research in India where civil society organisations have bee...
Oct 05, 2017•33 min
In August 2017 Prof Uma Kothari, Global Development Institute, spoke at the EADI NORDIC 2017 conference on ‘Contesting Reconfigured Boundaries: Migration and Development’. The conference was a joint partnership between EADI (European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes), NFU (Norwegian Association of Development Research), the University of Bergen (UiB) and the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI). Find out more about the Global Development Institute: Website Blog BlueSky Linke...
Sep 18, 2017•29 min
Dr Pablo Yanguas, Research Associate at ESID, sat down with GDI's Communications and Impact Manager Chris Jordan, to talk about the politics of aid and whether DFID fund Obamacare if the US was a developing country. They also chat about Trump, the Daily Mail, internationalism, pedagogy of aid, political courage, and of course Dr Yanguas's upcoming book, Why We Lie About A Find out more about the Global Development Institute: Website Blog BlueSky LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Newsletter Intro music...
Aug 30, 2017•40 min
In this episode, Prof Diana Mitlin, Managing Director of GDI, and Dr Mercedes González de la Rocha, an anthropologist and sociologist at CIESAS and an alumna of the University of Manchester, discuss inequalities, clustered disadvantages, urban social isolation, why Mercedes loves Immanuel Wallerstein's definition of income. They also discuss Dr González de la Rocha’s research on poverty and vulnerability in Mexico, including the ten-year research project she led to evaluate the impact of Mexico'...
Aug 14, 2017•48 min
Professor Richard Heeks spoke as part of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission lecture series. The event was entitled Information and Communication Technologies (ICTS) for Development.Richard Heeks is Professor of Development Informatics in the Global Development Institute, at The University of Manchester. He is Director of the Centre for Development Informatics, which is also based at The University of Manchester. Find out more about the Global Development Institute: Website Blog BlueSky Link...
Aug 01, 2017•31 min
Dr Saleemul Huq from International Center for Climate Change and Development, Dhaka discusses the power of Least Developed Countries at UN climate talks. Find out more about the Global Development Institute: Website Blog BlueSky LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Newsletter Intro music Anna Banana by Eaters...
Jul 25, 2017•36 min
Professor David Hulme, Executive Director of the Global Development Institute discusses his book, Should Rich Nations Help the Poor?This podcast was recorded as part of the Global Development Institute Lecture Series. Find out more about the Global Development Institute: Website Blog BlueSky LinkedIn Facebook Instagram Newsletter Intro music Anna Banana by Eaters...
Jul 24, 2017•48 min
