by Global Development Institute | Oct 15, 2019 | Comment
Dr Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute The story of mobile money in Africa, such as Mpesa, is one of the success stories to have arisen from the continent in recent years. A World Bank report in 2016, featured mobile money services,...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Listen or watch Raquel Rolnik, professor of Urban Planning at the University of São Paulo discuss her new book ‘Urban warfare: housing under the empire of finance’ In cities across the world the story is the same – housing is in crisis and...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 15, 2019 | Comment
In this episode, Raquel Rolnik talked to Tom Gillespie and Isaac Rose about the financialisation of housing and her new book ‘Urban Warfare: housing under the empire of finance’. Raquel Rolnik is a professor of Urban Planning at the University of São...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Nick Jepson is a Hallsworth Fellow in Chinese political economy within the Global Development Institute at The University of Manchester. Later this year his book, In China’s Wake: How the Commodities Boom Transformed development strategies in the Global South, will be...