by Global Development Institute | Oct 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Bangladesh government closed all schools on March 17th, 2020 as part of a ‘lockdown’ to combat the virus. Since then there have been several target dates for re-opening, but each has been cancelled and we still cannot be sure when the schools will open again....
by Global Development Institute | Sep 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
To celebrate their new book, The Routledge Handbook of Place, Ares Kalandides, Tim Edensor and GDI’s Uma Kothari took part in an online launch event organised by Institute of Place Management. The event also featured chapter writers David Cooper, Jenny...
by Global Development Institute | Sep 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute Empowering women is firmly recognised as a key driver to development and empowered women an essential achievement of it. They can take part in the political affairs of the nation more actively, in the...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Tanja Müller, Professor of Political Sociology, Global Development Institute It was a cold day in February 2016. I arrived at the main train station in a UK city and took a taxi to an address in a suburb. The taxi driver looked at the postcode and asked if I was sure...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 12, 2020 | Comment, Uncategorized
Social protection programs can facilitate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but can also create trade-offs across divergent social and environmental goals that can undermine their effectiveness, say the authors of new research published in the...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
The story so far These blogs offer a running commentary on how 60 low-income households in central Bangladesh who volunteer as ‘diarists’ in our daily financial diary project have coped with the pandemic. The first blog in this series was written just after a ‘corona...
