by Global Development Institute | Apr 13, 2017 | Comment
By Professor Richard Heeks, Professor of Development Informatics Read the Development Informatics Working Paper ‘Examining “Digital Development”: The Shape of Things to Come?‘ Any emergent digital development paradigm will be shaped by three changing...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 21, 2017 | Comment, Research Findings
In a new paper, published in the GDI Working Paper series, Rory Horner and David Hulme argue that the macro-scale map of development has shifted from “divergence, big time” to “converging divergence”, which consequently requires a shift from thinking of international...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 27, 2016 | Comment
By Minna Lehtinen, Communications Officer One way that governments can help reduce poverty is by implementing social welfare programmes for those with low incomes, but the design of such programmes must be done with great care to make sure they actually achieve their...
by developmentatmanchester | Sep 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
By Paola Pena The political and social scenarios of Latin America have been shaped by the coming to power of ideological Left-wing governments along with the adoption and rapid expansion of a particular type of social assistance programmes known as Conditional Cash...
