by Global Development Institute | Aug 17, 2016 | Comment
Professor David Hulme, Executive Director, Global Development Institute Back in 1999 the Institute for Development Policy and Management started working with Stuart Rutherford (now an Honorary Research Fellow at the Global Development Institute) on a research project...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 15, 2016 | Comment
By Kunal Sen, Professor Of Development Economics & Policy, Global Development Institute A question of long-standing interest among social scientists is the degree to which an individual’s status in society is determined by the position of one’s parents. In...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 11, 2016 | News
We have big ambitions at the GDI and to make them happen, we need the best research and teaching staff. Following our successful launch, we’re now expanding – and currently have twelve academic positions to fill. If you have an outstanding track record and a...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 10, 2016 | Comment
David Hulme, Executive Director, Global Development Institute I am just back from Japan – a delightful visit with colleagues in Nagoya and Tokyo. The only cloud, in a very sunny week, was hearing about the scale of public support for a populist, nationalist right-wing...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 8, 2016 | Comment
Richard Heeks, Professor of Development Informatics, Global Development Institute At a recent CDI brown-bag discussion on data-intensive development, we hypothesised a mirror-image power dynamic between big data and open data. Open data has an inherent tendency to...
