Chris Jordan

Show Your Stripes Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

Create a visualisation for your country or town here:
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Members of the Development Studies Association - @devcomms.bsky.social - have called on the UK government take further action on Gaza.

One of these calls comes from Prof Sam Hickey, Head of GDI at The University of Manchester - @officialuom.bsky.social.

Read all statements here: bit.ly/3HjXxP7

Tourists canceling trips to the US.

“The hardest hit are going to be some of the poorest countries on the planet, who had begun to build an industrial manufacturing base via exporting to the US through preferential trade access. Over 80% of the Lesotho clothing production goes to the US. The clothing sector, with over 35,000 workers, is the biggest manufacturing employer in the country. With an overnight tariff jump to 50%, Lesotho’s clothing industry is effectively dead.”

Who wins and who loses from this process?

@kmn-mcr.bsky.social considers the widespread impact of these tariff changes: "The prospect of a global recession is a real concern"

🔗: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/trumps-tarif...

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🚨 New research alert! 🚨

Our multi-country study reveals gendered inequalities in #Africa's platform economy. Women face lower pay, greater precarity & sectoral exclusion—despite higher education. Time for policy action!

Read more 👉 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #GigEconomy #GenderEquality

NEW | Action research spotlight: Healthy school meals in Nairobi

In this episode, Veronica Mwangi from the University of Nairobi joins @chrisjords.bsky.social to talk about an ACRC action research initiative to improve access to healthy and nutritious school meals in Nairobi’s informal settlements.

We created a starter pack of our institutional members who are on BlueSky.

If we missed you, let us know.

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Some pretty momentous news from GDI and @africancities.bsky.social today about the consistently amazing Diana Mitlin...

Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows: [scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech] 1 CHURCHILL: The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 2 CHURCHILL: Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. 3 CHURCHILL: If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun- BBC PRESENTER: Thank you prime minister 4 BBC PRESENTER: Mr hitler, your response? 5 HITLER [in the studio]: Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill 6 HITLER: What we are proposing - CHURCHILL: Hang on 7 HITLER: Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement - 8 CHURCHILL: What's he doing here BBC PRESENTER: It's important we hear both sides of the debate 9 CHURCHILL: This isn't a debate You don't debate fascists 10 HITLER: Oh here we go with ze Godwins law! 11 HITLER: Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'... CHURCHILL: Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit- 12 HITLER [standing up, saluting]: RAUSS! BBC PRESENTER: *Please* Mr Churchill let him speak [ends]

Palestine and Global Development - Global Development Institute Blog At The University of Manchester, GDI Students for Palestine is a collective of voices united by shared values of justice, equality, and solidarity.

We are pleased to share with you a new blog post written by the GDI Students for Palestine group.

The group questions what conflicts like Gaza mean for the study and practice of global development, as well as the role of universities like Manchester.

Read the piece in full here: bit.ly/3QJFNyn

What next for our broken aid system?
When scholars and practitioners are debating the effectiveness and equity of aid delivery, could dramatic changes in the aid sector serve as a catalyst for reform?
Join us to discuss in a webinar partnered with @globaldevinst.bsky.social
bit.ly/whatnextaid

Exciting news for tax evasion and money laundering!

Some fascinating findings - and charts - in this new paper on what Wikipedia tells us about digital divides....

Are we in a second Cold War? @iliasalami.bsky.social, @jessicadicarlo.bsky.social, @steverolf.bsky.social and @sethschindler.bsky.social argue that the current conflict focuses on controlling global economic networks rather than ideology or territory. www.tni.org/en/article/t...

Phew.... @globaldevinst.bsky.social is leaving twitter. Better late than never?

We held a straw poll amongst academics yesterday, with c.80% voting to leave.

Trump is making false claims about Zelensky's popularity, say experts US President Donald Trump has once again echoed Kremlin talking points, by falsely claiming that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s approval rating stands at a mere 4%. In reality, polling by ex...

Make this @OfficialUoM press release viral
“Trump … echoed Kremlin talking points, by falsely claiming …Zelensky’s approval rating stands at a mere 4%…polling…puts his approval rating at 63% - making him the most popular politician in the country.”
www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/t...

If you’d asked AI to write a piece of Russian propaganda in the style of Donald Trump, this is what you’d get. Well done America, you’ve elected a Russian asset as your President.

Graphic card showing map of Africa with Nairobi, Kenya marked.

NEW | Nairobi: City report

Nairobi is central to the Kenyan economy, as a key political battleground and a hub for business networks and national and transnational trade.

Yet it faces an increasingly complex set of socioeconomic, health and spatial inequalities.

This is a great essay by @sethschindler.bsky.social & co. charting the decline of neoliberalism and the rise of 'state-capitalist geopolitics'.

I'm looking forward to this today ...and I'm sure it will be of interest to all @africancities.bsky.social researchers too.

Wot no Custard?

Boosting Zambia’s Mining Revenue Through Tax Audits, Transfer Pricing Legislation and License Valuation - Intergovernmental Forum Our deep dive technical assistance program in Zambia focused on mining taxation and revenue collection.

Improved collection of mining taxes in Zambia boosted revenue collection by over $60m in a couple of years. Annual mining corporate income tax increased by 10%.

Would this have happened without @taxjusticenet.bsky.social campaigning in Zambia and beyond? 🤔

www.igfmining.org/impactstory/...

After the publication of his recent working paper analysing the US-China “AI Cold War”, we caught up with Richard Heeks (@cddmanchester.bsky.social) about the controversy surrounding DeepSeek.

Read Richard's take below, and find the full working paper here: research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati...

A tiny 2% wealth tax, on 20k people would raise £24 billion per year to spend on the things that urgently need fixing in our country.

We need some tax justice - the more money you have the less tax you pay and vice versa - that’s absurd.

Migrants send or bring back over three times the amount of money provided by global foreign aid.

Cutting transaction fees could make this support even more effective in reducing poverty.

GDI Research for Transformation Lab Manager (part time):Manchester

Today is your last chance to apply to join us as our new Research for Transformation Lab manager 💼

- 17.5 hrs per week (part-time)
- University of Manchester, hybrid
- £36,924 - £45,163 pro rata per annum, depending on experience

Learn more here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

If you're looking for a new job in 2025, love research and have great links with development policy and practice - come and work with me and the team!

Lessons from Africa - for Manchester - Global Development Institute Blog Diana Mitlin reflects on the lessons that a recent conference on African Urbanism has provided to her work and that of colleagues in Manchester.

Fascinating new blog by Diana Mitlin exploring how academics can work best with organised community groups - and how @official-uom.bsky.social could become a much more inclusive civic university by playing an active role in reform coalitions.

blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/lessons-from...

Lessons from Africa - for Manchester - Global Development Institute Blog Diana Mitlin reflects on the lessons that a recent conference on African Urbanism has provided to her work and that of colleagues in Manchester.

We've just published a blog by Diana Mitlin that picks up where this article leaves off - and offers some practical ways that UoM (and other universities) could start to address this gap.

blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/lessons-from...

51% of people in the UK know “not much or very little” about what their local university is actually for, which contrasts with many institutions' confident rhetoric about their central place in 'the community'. universityappg.co.uk/resources/re...