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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.

Lecture: Should rich nations help the poor? - David Hulme

Lord Jim O'Neill spoke as part of the Rising Powers Conference held at The University of Manchester in June 2017.

24/07/2017

Lecture: Lord Jim O'Neill on are the Rising Powers are really rising? -

Dr Saleemul Huq from International Center for Climate Change and Development, Dhaka discusses the power of Least Developed Countries at UN climate talks.

25/07/2017

Lecture: Saleemul Huq on the least developed countries negotiating climate change

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.

01/08/2017

Lecture: Richard Heeks on from ICT4D to digital development

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's conditional cash transfer programme Oportunidades (now called Prospera).

In conversation: Poverty and vulnerability in Mexico Mercedes González de la Rocha & Diana Mitlin

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, how populism differs in the developed and developing worlds, and how in most of the latter, populism is not populism in its historical sense or definition.

In conversation: Globalisation, inequality and trade with Dani Rodrik & David Hulme

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