by Global Development Institute | Jul 17, 2020 | Comment
Giovanni Pasquali, Research Associate, Global Development Institute, Shane Godfrey, University of Cape Town Read the full research briefing here The Covid-19 pandemic is having major implications for the resilience of apparel global value chains (GVCs). State-driven...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 17, 2020 | Comment
Charity Mumbi and Jack Makau work for Muungano wa Wanavijiji, a social movement of ‘slum’ residents and urban poor people in Kenya, affiliated to SDI International. In this podcast they describe the last few months of working through the initial outbreak...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
The story so far The first blog in this series was written just after a ‘corona lockdown’ was enforced in Bangladesh on 26th March 2020. It discussed the reaction to the shock of the 60 low-income households in central Bangladesh who volunteer as ‘diarists’ in our...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Professor David Fielding joined the Global Development Institute earlier this year. We caught up with him about his research interests. What did you do before coming to Manchester? For the last 15 years, I’ve been at the University of Otago in New Zealand as...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
Watch Upasak Das’ webinar on ‘Using information and technology to improve efficacy of welfare programs: Evidence from India’. Dr Upasak Das is a Presidential Fellow at Global Development Institute. Note: This article gives the views of the...
