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Global Development Institute podcast

PEOPLE'S CHOICE: End of Capitalism or End of Earth

Wednesday:  We return to our “South of the Border” feature.  Our guest is economist and journalist Mark Weisbrot we discuss the recent re election of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff.

And author and activist Naomi Klein on her new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism VS the Climate.  

Also, voter suppression and the midterm elections, we speak to Barbara Arnwine, President & Executive Director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. 

10-29-14 Naomi Klein on new book "This Changes Everything: Capitalism VS. the Climate"

Anti-Capitalism in London November 2015 Climate March

Jacobin editor Peter Frase examines the future beyond climate change, capitalism and other disasters, and finds tomorrow's fights for survival, prosperity and stability rooted in the same conflict - class struggle for production and power.

Peter is author of the new book "Four Futures: Life After Capitalism" part of the Jacobin series from Verso Books: https://www.versobooks.com/books/1847-four-futures

On climate change, automation, and the possibilities of life beyond capitalism.

In the seventh episode of the Climate History Podcast, Professor Dagomar Degroot (Georgetown University) interviews Professor Bathsheba Demuth (Brown University) about her experiences in a changing Arctic, and her forthcoming book on the history of communism and capitalism across the Bering Strait.

Capitalism, Communism, and Indigenous Communities in a Changing Arctic

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

This week's Global Research News Hour, we consider the possibility that some of the most prominent climate campaigns on the planet, including the Greta Thunberg-led Climate Strikes are in fact being co-opted by the world's most prominent financial elites, via vehicles like large environmental NGOs, to serve a pre-existing agenda having more to do with expanding capitalism than reversing or mitigating climate change. Independent investigative journalist Cory Morningstar is our guest for the hour, and she expands on the theme of her recent series of articles: "The Manufacturing of Greta Thunberg – for Consent."