by Global Development Institute | Oct 17, 2017 | Comment
Prof Diana Mitlin, Managing Director, Global Development Institute While global attention focuses on the Kenyan election, a process that will (arguably) make a much more significant difference to the wellbeing of the more than 3 million residents of Nairobi is already...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dr Tanja Müller, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, Global Development Institute On 13 Jan 08 at approximately 18:30 hrs a UN WFP driver was shot and wounded in an attempted carjacking. The UN WFP driver picked up a UN WFP radio operator to commence night shift...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
In the previous article about a daily ‘financial diary’ research project in Bangladesh, we looked at the biggest expenditures made by our diarists (“When poor households spend big”). Here we tell the stories behind a few of those big expenditures. A spending storm...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 9, 2017 | Comment
Dr Judith Krauss, Lecturer in Environment, Climate Change and Development, Global Development Institute The UK’s National Chocolate Week is here! What a fabulous invention for all those of us who love cocoa and chocolate – which, at least based on my...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 5, 2017 | Events
On Wednesday, 4 Octobe, Prof Diana Mitlin gave a lecture entitled ‘Addressing shelter inequalities: Lessons from urban India’. You can watch the live stream below GDI Lecture: Diana Mitlin on urban development and inequalities from Global Development...