by Global Development Institute | Mar 19, 2018 | Research Findings
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute Bringing financial services to people is key to enhance the chance of poor people to participate in development and reap its fruits. By connecting savers, who put their funds into an institution, and...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 8, 2018 | Research Findings
For all the gains made for and by women in academia, equal pay, under-representation, stereotypes, tokenism or imposter syndrome mean that there is still a long way to go. For International Women’s Day 2018 we’ve highlighted some of the papers that female academics at...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 22, 2018 | News, Research Findings
A new book fills a research gap on migration into and within Africa, and to the socio-political consequences of these movements. The book ‘Forging African Communities: Mobility, Integration and Belonging’ sheds new light on how human mobility redefines the meaning of...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 19, 2018 | Research Findings, Uncategorized
Introducing Old Fadama This article is based on Laura v. Puttkamer’s Master’s dissertation from August 2017, with a summary of research results, drawing on interviews with local experts, who at their wish remain anonymous. Old Fadama or ‘Sodom and Gomorrah’, as...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 23, 2017 | Comment, Research Findings
Dr Rory Horner and Prof Khalid Nadvi, Global Development Institute In a new, open access article published in Global Networks, we argue that Southern actors and Southern end markets have more prominent roles in global trade, requiring greater attention to the...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 1, 2017 | Research Findings, Uncategorized
By Stuart Rutherford, Honorary Research Fellow at The Global Development Institute In developing countries like Bangladesh, Digital Financial Services (DFS) usually refers to transactions made over the mobile phone, using variants of the system pioneered in Kenya by...
