Global Development Institute

Community of Practice: The role of hope in transforming places of despair into resilient spaces

08:00 - 09:00 21 October 2025
Hope represents a vital resource in a development landscape affected by rising geopolitical tensions, funding problems, employee burnout, climate crisis, and other interconnected challenges.…

GDI Lecture: The Political Lives of Information - Janaki Srinivasan

16:30 - 18:00 5 November 2025
Speaker: Janaki Srinivasan, University of Oxford My talk will be based on my 2022 book, The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India,…

Book Launch: Diverse Transnational Care: Ageing and Migration in Bolivia

16:00 - 17:00 7 November 2025
Join us to celebrate the publication of Diverse Transnational Care: Ageing and Migration in Bolivia, Policy Press https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/diverse-transnational-care…

GDI Film Screening: A Place in the City, Gabriel Silvestre

16:30 - 18:00 12 November 2025
A Place in the City, by Dr Gabriel Silvestre, from Newcastle University's School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, features communities in Latin America facing displacement,…

GDI Lecture: Fettered Development and Political Turmoil: 15 Years Since the Arab Spring, Gilbert Achcar

16:30 - 18:00 19 November 2025
Speaker: Gilbert Achcar, SOAS The political landscape in the MENA region looks bleaker today than ever before. This is in sharp contrast with the euphoria aroused fifteen years ago…

GDI Lecture: Tax and Development: The OECD Experience, Joseph Stead

16:30 - 18:00 26 November 2025
Speaker: Joseph Stead, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration The Seville Commitment emphasized the pivotal role of tax revenues as the largest source of financing for development.…

GDI Lecture: The Myth of Deindustrialisation and the Possibilities for Development within Industrial Civilisation

16:30 - 18:00 3 December 2025
Speaker: Andrew Fischer, International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) This lecture draws from Celso Furtado's classic, Accumulation and Development: the logic of industrial civilisation…

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