//podcastplus.net/feed/global-development-institute-podcast~2a9ab0ee We’re the Global Development Institute at The University of Manchester: where critical thinking meets social justice. Each episode we will bring you the latest thinking, insights and debate in development studies. Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:09:11 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1261560079-globaldevinst-global-covid-19-vaccine-inequality-with-karrar-karrar-lara-dovifat-and-ken-shadlen.mp3 While the Covid-19 pandemic has caused enormous devastation and disruption in health, social and economic terms, the remarkably quick development of Covid-19 vaccines is an enormous achievement. Yet despite frequent statements that “it's not over anywhere, until it’s over everywhere”, the distribution of Covid-19 vaccines has been grossly inequitable – defying what the world needs epidemiologically and economically, as well as ethically.The panel of leading academic and activist experts reflect on one of the biggest immediate problems facing the world – looking back at how global Covid-19 vaccine inequality has emerged and exploring what needs to happen now and in the future to address the ongoing issue, and help prevent similar future problems. It will explore aspects including the roles and limitations of technology transfer, patent protection, vaccine nationalism, COVAX as a multilateral initiative.Speakers:Karrar Karrar is a Senior Advisor – Pharmaceutical Policy, Save the ChildrenLara Dovifat... Tue, 03 May 2022 15:07:46 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1261560079-globaldevinst-global-covid-19-vaccine-inequality-with-karrar-karrar-lara-dovifat-and-ken-shadlen.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1252851022-globaldevinst-disaggregating-china-inc-state-strategies-in-the-liberal-economic-order-with-yeling-tan.mp3 Yeling Tan discusses her book, Disaggregating China, Inc: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order. China’s entry into the World Trade Organization in 2001 represented an historic opportunity to peacefully integrate a rising economic power into the international order based on market-liberal rules. Yet rising economic tensions between the US and China indicate that this integration process has run into trouble. To what extent has the liberal internationalist promise of the WTO been fulfilled? To answer this question, this podcast breaks open the black box of the massive Chinese state and unpacks the economic strategies that central economic agencies as well as subnational authorities adopted in response to WTO rules demanding far-reaching modifications to China’s domestic institutions. Tan explains why, rather than imposing constraints, WTO entry provoked divergent policy responses from different actors within the Chinese state, in ways neither expected nor desired by the architects of the WTO.Yelin... Tue, 19 Apr 2022 10:18:51 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1252851022-globaldevinst-disaggregating-china-inc-state-strategies-in-the-liberal-economic-order-with-yeling-tan.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1244600653-globaldevinst-the-new-international-economic-order-and-the-right-to-development-with-jennifer-bair.mp3 This podcast focuses on development politics at the United Nations, particularly the period of the so-called New International Economic Order (NIEO) in the 1970s. The NIEO was an effort by Third World countries to pursue a reform agenda that combined global redistribution from North to South with state-led developmentalism at the national level. By revisiting this fascinating and tumultuous period in the global political economy, Bair aims to re-centre the role of Southern states in debates about globalization, human rights and inequality.Jennifer Bair is Professor of Sociology and Department Chair at The University of VirginiaRead a transcript of the podcast: https://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/gdi/research/transcripts/new_international_economic_order_right_to_development.pdfIntro music Anna Banana by Eaters. Tue, 05 Apr 2022 12:30:01 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1244600653-globaldevinst-the-new-international-economic-order-and-the-right-to-development-with-jennifer-bair.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1240122913-globaldevinst-the-routledge-handbook-of-global-development-episode-3.mp3 To mark the launch of The Routledge Handbook of Global Development, we have recorded 3 podcasts with the core editorial team.In the final episode, core-editor Kearrin Sims sat down with Albert Salamanca and Pichamon Yeophantong, section editors for the book’s section ‘Sustainabilty and Environment’.Kearrin Sims is a lecturer in Development Studies at James Cook University, Australia.Albert Salamanca is a senior research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute’s Asia Centre, Thailand.Pichamon Yeophantong is a senior lecturer at the University of New South Wales, Canberra.Find out more about the book: http://blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/new-handbook-challenges-dominant-development-paradigms/Read a transcript of the podcast: https://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/gdi/research/transcripts/routledge-handbook-global-development-e3.pdfIntro music Anna Banana by Eaters. Mon, 28 Mar 2022 13:32:49 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1240122913-globaldevinst-the-routledge-handbook-of-global-development-episode-3.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1222291729-globaldevinst-the-routledge-handbook-of-global-development-episode-2.mp3 In this second podcast to mark the launch of The Routledge Handbook of Global Development, Professor Jonathan Rigg sits down with Dr Nicola Banks, the section editor of 'Game Changers of global development?', to find out what makes a 'game changer' and how development pedagogy can learn from them.Jonathan Rigg is Professor of Development Geography in the School of Geographical Sciences at the University of Bristol.Nicola Banks is Senior Lecturer in Global Urbanism and Urban Development at the Global Development Institute at the University of Manchester.Find out more about the book: http://blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/new-handbook-challenges-dominant-development-paradigms/Read a transcript of the podcast: https://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/gdi/research/transcripts/routledge-handbook-global-development-e2.pdfIntro music Anna Banana by Eaters. Fri, 25 Feb 2022 11:32:40 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1222291729-globaldevinst-the-routledge-handbook-of-global-development-episode-2.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1221642934-globaldevinst-the-routledge-handbook-of-global-development-episode-1.mp3 To mark the launch of The Routledge Handbook of Global Development, we have recorded 3 podcasts with the core editorial team.In this first episode, core-editor Kearrin Sims sat down with co-editors Susan Engel, Paul Hodge and Naohiro Nakamura, to discuss their motivations behind the book, what makes this volume so special, and how it deals with 'global' development.Kearrin Sims is a lecturer in Development Studies at James Cook University, Australia.Susan Engel is an associate professor in Politics and International Studies at the University of Wollongong, Australia.Paul Hodge is a senior lecturer in Geography and Environmental Studies at The University of Newcastle, Australia.Naohiro Nakamura is a senior lecturer in Geography at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji.Find out more about the book: http://blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/new-handbook-challenges-dominant-development-paradigms/Read a transcript of the podcast: https://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/gdi/research/transcripts/routledge-handbook-g... Thu, 24 Feb 2022 11:34:59 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1221642934-globaldevinst-the-routledge-handbook-of-global-development-episode-1.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1204014709-globaldevinst-in-conversation-shuaib-lwasa.mp3 In the latest episode of the GDI podcast Professor Shuaib Lwasa talks to Dr Seth Schindler. They discuss the recent COP in Glasgow, urban development, African cities and the Urban Action Lab. Dr. Shuaib Lwasa is Professor of Urban Sustainability at Makerere University, Uganda. He has worked extensively on interdisciplinary research projects focused on African cities but also in South Asia. He established and directed an Urban Action Research Lab in 2010 which has championed graduate research and training and incubating novel ideas of urban transformation and sustainability in partnership with low-income communities and vulnerable groups working in three research sites in Uganda.Seth Schindler is Senior Lecturer in Urban Development and Transformation in the Global Development Institute. His research is focused on large-scale urban and regional transformation initiatives that integrate cities into transnational urban systems. Seth is also co-research director of the African Cities Research Consortium, a six-ye... Wed, 26 Jan 2022 13:18:14 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1204014709-globaldevinst-in-conversation-shuaib-lwasa.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1174729105-globaldevinst-why-addressing-global-discontent-is-essential-to-build-back-better-from-covid-19-with-alexander-pick.mp3 Alexander Pick is Head of New Development Policies and Institutions at the OECD Development Centre.Social unrest is on the rise once more. A surge in discontent in the wake of the global financial crisis was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic but is resuming in many places and in many different forms as the pandemic begins to recede. The causes, manifestations and consequences of this discontent is the subject of Perspectives on Global Development 2021: From protest to progress? – a new flagship report by the OECD Development Centre. In this lecture, Alexander Pick, the lead author of the report, will discuss its key findings about the complexities of discontent, what the phenomenon tells us about the world around us, and what needs to be done to address it, at a local, national and international level.Read a transcript of this podcast: https://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/gdi/research/transcripts/addressing-global-discontent-essential-build%20back-better-from-covid-19-alexander-pick.pdf Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:04:37 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1174729105-globaldevinst-why-addressing-global-discontent-is-essential-to-build-back-better-from-covid-19-with-alexander-pick.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1162502533-globaldevinst-us-china-rivalry-in-global-trade-governance-with-kristen-hopewell.mp3 In this podcast, Kristen Hopewell, Canada Research Chair in Global Policy, presents research from her new book analyzing the impact of the growing US-China conflict on the multilateral trading system. Hopewell argues that China’s ascent has significantly weakened American control over the governing institutions of the trading system and its power to write the rules of global trade. The US and China are engaged in a pitched battle to set the rules of global economic competition, and the confrontation between these two dominant powers has paralyzed global trade rule-making. The China Paradox – the fact that China is both a developing country and an economic powerhouse – has created significant challenges for global trade governance. While China demands exemptions from global trade disciplines as a developing country, the US refuses to extend special treatment to its rival. The implications of this conflict extend far beyond trade, impeding pro-development and pro-environment reforms of the global trading ... Thu, 18 Nov 2021 16:08:18 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1162502533-globaldevinst-us-china-rivalry-in-global-trade-governance-with-kristen-hopewell.mp3 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1082440132-globaldevinst-gdi-the-sdgs-creating-sustainable-livelihoods-through-group-farming-withbina-agarwal.mp3 In this new mini-series three GDI academics talk to The University of Manchester’s Dr Nic Gowland about how their research is helping to deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals for global health, equality and sustainability.More than 80% of South Asia’s farmers are cultivating under two hectares, usually in scattered plots. Most lack access to irrigation, credit, technical information, and the means to tackle climate change. A growing proportion of farms are managed by women, but without owning the land they cultivate, as men move to non-farm jobs.For more than a decade, Bina Agarwal, Professor of Development Economics and Environment at the Global Development Institute, has examined whether cultivating in groups by voluntarily pooling land, labour, funds and skills and sharing costs and benefits, would enable small farmers to create larger, more profitable enterprises in South Asia, and beyond.You can read a transcript of this podcast here: http://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/gdi/research/tr... Tue, 06 Jul 2021 13:55:16 +0000 https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/1082440132-globaldevinst-gdi-the-sdgs-creating-sustainable-livelihoods-through-group-farming-withbina-agarwal.mp3