In memory of Simeen Mahmud
Everyone at the Global Development Institute was saddened to hear that Simeen Mahmud recently passed away. Simeen was head of the Gender Studies Cluster and the Coordinator of the Centre for Gender and Social Transformation (CGST) at BRAC University in Bangladesh. She...
How are Digital Financial Services used by poor people in Bangladesh?
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...
What the poor spend on health care
By Stuart Rutherford, Honorary Research Fellow at The Global Development Institute This is the fourth in a series of short articles about the findings of a daily ‘financial diary’ research project in Bangladesh. In this article, we look at the spending on health care...