Jun 16, 2021 | Politics and governance
By Fana Gebresenbet, Biruk Terrefe and Tom Lavers In 1991, Ethiopia had 370MW of installed electric power and 4% grid connectivity, one of the lowest rates in the world. In the 27 years of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front’s (EPRDF) rule, both of...
May 17, 2021 | Politics and governance
By David Hulme and Barnaby Dye (Global Development Institute, University of Manchester) Originally published on Global Policy Can Britain learn from the mistakes and reforms of other emerging and developed economies in creating its new infrastructure bank? In the...
Apr 22, 2021 | India, Politics and governance
FutureDAMS and the Institute of Economic Growth, India, are inviting participants to a workshop on Dams, Development and Water. 27-28 April 2021, 02:00PM-06:15 PM IST (9:30 AM – 13:45 PM UK). There will be eight presentations by leading scholars, examining a...
Mar 29, 2021 | India, News, Politics and governance
Read the article by FutureDAMS Postdoctoral researcher, Shruti Jain, on the recent dam disasters in the Himalaya, published in Economics and Political Weekly – Construction of Calamities in the Uttarakhand Himalaya. Hydropower projects on the Uttarakhand rivers...
Feb 16, 2021 | India, Politics and governance
By Udisha Saklani On the morning of 7th February 2021, India’s Dhauliganga Valley in the northern Himalayan state of Uttarakhand witnessed a tragic flash flood, which was set off by a breach in the Nanda Devi glacier. As a large chunk of snow, fresh water and rocks...
Jan 14, 2021 | India, News, Politics and governance
A new working paper by Barnaby Dye analyses how India’s development cooperation with Africa has significantly changed. Founded after India’s independence, the country’s development cooperation programme was rhetorically framed as demand-led, non-interventionist and...
