by Global Development Institute | Apr 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Armando Barrientos, Emeritus Professor of Poverty and Social Justice, Global Development Institute Social policy has traditionally focused on income, its distribution and redistribution. But wealth is increasingly coming into view on issues such as wealth taxes,...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Since May 2015 the Hrishipara Daily Financial Diary project has been recording all the daily money transactions of a sample of low-income households living in central Bangladesh. At the end of March 2021, we asked them about the transactions they hadn’t made. The...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Armando Barrientos, Emeritus Professor of Poverty and Social Justice, Global Development Institute Social protection has played a leading role in government responses to Covid-19. Public programmes providing income and in-kind transfers to vulnerable population groups...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 14, 2021 | Comment
In 2010 Joseph Hanlon, Armando Barrientos and David Hulme published ‘Just Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution from the Global South’. The book concisely summarises the evidence of the benefits of cash transfers. Its conclusion that both...
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....
