by Global Development Institute | Nov 14, 2019 | Comment
It is with great sadness that we report the death on October 21, 2019 of Emeritus Professor Dennis Austin at his home in Colchester. Born at the Grove Hospital, Tooting on 14th March, 1921, he was the son of Henry Edmund Austin. After wartime service with the Royal...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 13, 2019 | Comment
University of Johannesburg & University of Manchester Workshop CCRED, Johannesburg, 6-8 July 2020 A rich body of research has examined the prospects for development within global value chains (GVCs) and global production networks (GPNs), yet the implications of...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 29, 2019 | Comment
In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, local SDI groups have played a critical role in making participatory planning a reality. Dialogue on Shelter, the Zimbabwe Homeless People’s Federation, together with staff and students from the National University for Science and technology,...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 22, 2019 | Comment
Diana Mitlin, Professor of Global Urbanism, is leading new research which looks into the importance of participatory planning and the co-production of knowledge in urban transformation. The latest paper, by sharing the experiences of the authors – as academics and...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 21, 2019 | Comment
Dr Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute On 14 October 2019 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating...
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,...
