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...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 5, 2017 | Comment
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...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 1, 2017 | Comment, Events, Policy
By Professor David Hulme, Executive Director of the Global Development Institute I recently had the privilege of delivering a lecture at the IUB University and ICCCAD in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Much of the presentation was based on the recent book Bangladesh Confronts...
by Global Development Institute | Sep 27, 2016 | Policy, Research Findings
Following on from David Hulme’s blog post Do you want to know how poor people really manage their money? Stuart Rutherford, an Honorary Research Fellow at the Global Development Institute, analyses the latest data from his fascinating financial diaries project....
by Global Development Institute | Apr 21, 2016 | Events, Uncategorized
Climate change intensifies the exclusion suffered by the poorest, but what needs to be done to support the people of Bangladesh to respond to one of the biggest environmental and development challenges of the 21st century? Dr Joanne Jordan from the GDI spent months in...
