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CGD Webinar Series - Decolonisation and Development

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Recent development discourse has emphasised the need to question the legacies of coloniality within global development practices if global inequalities are to be curtailed. This webinar  brings onboard panellists from all facets of development in praxis and scholarship to explore decoloniality within global development research and practice. The key question for the session is “What...

Annual Politics of Global Challenges Lecture: Gender Fail During Global Health Emergencies: WHO Runs the World?’

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POLIS presents the Politics of Global Challenges Annual Lecture - ‘Gender Fail During Global Health Emergencies: WHO Runs the World?’ About this Event This year, the Centre for Global Security Challenges and Centre for Global Development at the University of Leeds are launching the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) 'Politics of Global Challenges Annual Lecture'. We welcome...

Join us on 29th November for the CGD 2017 Annual Lecture with the White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership

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Leaving no one behind - pipe dream or possibility? An interdisciplinary panel on prospects for the SDGs Wednesday 29th November 2017. 5pm to 7.30pm. Maurice Keyworth, LT (GR.02), University of Leeds Business School Join us for a drinks reception in the foyer at 7pm. All welcome. To register go to https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cgd-annual-lecture-leaving-no-one-behind-pipe-dream-or-possibility-tickets-3972420316 Keynote speakers Professor Richard...

The Microfinance Delusion: Explaining the Destructive Rise of Local Neoliberalism

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Centre for Global Development (CGD) and Applied Institute of Research in Economics (AIRE) Speaker: Milford Bateman, Author of Why Doesn’t Microfinance Work? Discussants: Thankom Arun, Professor of Development Finance and Public Policy, University of Central Lancashire Jason Hickel, Research Fellow - Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics and Political Science About the Author The...