by Global Development Institute | Apr 3, 2020 | Comment
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute The pandemic of novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has infected unwitting hosts all around the world. Some estimate suggests up to three in four of a population can be infected with about 4% of those...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 3, 2020 | Comment
How the approach of Covid-19 has affected low-income households in central Bangladesh. Liaqat (not his real name) is a newspaper vendor and a volunteer ‘diarist’ in the Hrishipara Daily Financial Diaries project. We have been tracking all his money transactions on a...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Hrishipara Daily Diaries project has been recording the daily money transactions of 70 low-income households in central Bangladesh, in some cases since May 2015. Bangladesh is famous for its microfinance banks (MFIs) and most of our ‘diarists’ have accounts with...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 5, 2020 | Comment
Research by Professor Kunal Sen of the Global Development Institute and the United Nations University (UNU-Wider), and Sabyasachi Kar and Amrita Roy from the Institute of Economic Growth in Delhi, India has won Economic Modelling’s Best Paper of the year award for...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 21, 2020 | Comment
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of BRAC, sadly passed away at the end of last year. Many within the Global Development Institute work closely with BRAC and the news deeply touched many colleagues. Professor David Hulme recalls his experience of working with Abed Bhai. I...
