Lecture: Richard Heeks on the digital gig economy
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 perspe...
20 Loka 201733min
Lecture: Diana Mitlin on urban development and inequalities
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 cons...
5 Loka 201732min
Lecture: Uma Kothari on migration and development
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 p...
18 Syys 201728min
In conversation: Trump, the Daily Mail & aid with Pablo Yanguas & Chris Jordan
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 deve...
30 Elo 201739min
In conversation: Poverty and vulnerability in Mexico Mercedes González de la Rocha & Diana Mitlin
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 i...
14 Elo 201748min
Lecture: Richard Heeks on from ICT4D to digital development
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 ...
1 Elo 201731min
Lecture: Saleemul Huq on the least developed countries negotiating climate change
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 Ins...
25 Heinä 201736min
Lecture: Should rich nations help the poor? - David Hulme
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 Institut...
24 Heinä 201747min
