by Global Development Institute | Jan 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
Catch up with our webinar which introduced the African Cities Research Consortium (ACRC) and outlined how the ACRC and its international partners is planning to tackle complex, political and systemic problems in some of Africa’s fastest-growing urban areas. ACRC has...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 21, 2021 | Uncategorized
Malte Skov and Andreina Carrillo Espinoza, PhD researchers, Global Development Institute The global outbreak of the novel Covid-19 virus has meant that travel restrictions, as well as national, regional, and local lockdowns across the globe, pose major limitations on...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute Global development aims to eradicate poverty in this decade. The task, according to the latest figure from the Uganda Bureau of Statistics, involves 21.4 per cent of Ugandans living in poverty. And...
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 | Jan 5, 2021 | Comment
Tanja Müller, Professor of Political Sociology, Global Development Institute On 31 December 2020, United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur’s (UNAMID) mandate came to an end. While it will take until 30 June for all UNAMID staff to have left Sudan, the mission no...
