by Global Development Institute | Feb 9, 2023 | Comment
Gindo Tampubolon, Global Development Institute and United Nations University – World Institute for Development Economics Research The toll of the Covid-19 pandemic is still being counted. Meanwhile, new variants continue to threaten because the reservoir of people...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 7, 2022 | Comment
The Global Development Institute Merit Awards provide three full scholarships for academically excellent professionals studying a GDI campus-based master’s course commencing in September 2023. The scholarship covers tuition fees, living expenses, flights to the UK,...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 24, 2022 | Comment
Development studies often focuses on the negative: constraints, challenges, negative impacts, etc. But what if we could use new digital datasets to identify positive deviants: outlier individuals, households, districts and others that outperform their peers in...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 7, 2022 | Comment
Anna Thurlbeck, Postgraduate Researcher, Global Development Institute Taking place on the 5th and 6th of May, this year’s PGR Conference centred around the theme of multidiscipliniarity, chosen to put a spotlight on the extensive breadth of research being undertaken...
by Global Development Institute | May 18, 2022 | Comment
Dr Basma Albanna recently gave a lecture at Africa in Science exploring her research into Data-Powered Positive Deviance. In the lecture she introduces the new method that combines traditional (e.g. surveys & interviews) and non-traditional data (e.g. from remote...
