Global Development Institute Blog

Insulation and Inequality: The limits of the Warm Homes Plan

Insulation and Inequality: The limits of the Warm Homes Plan

by Jules Buckland, student in PPE While the Labour government has committed an initial £1.8 billion to its flagship Warm Homes Plan, this policy offers little in the way of transformation, largely expanding upon mechanisms used over the last decade (such as the Energy...
We made poverty history. So why are we still here?

We made poverty history. So why are we still here?

by Professor Nicola Banks It’s been 20 years since the huge phenomenon of Make Poverty History. Nearly one-quarter of a million people marched the streets of Edinburgh. More than three billion worldwide watched Live 8. And over 7 million of us wore white wristbands in...
What the poor spend on health care

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...