The challenges and opportunities of researching migration in a pandemic
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...
Chronic poverty and inequality in Uganda. The last mile?
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...
Just Give Money to the Poor: The Development Revolution from the Global South
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...