by Global Development Institute | Apr 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
David Little Much of my career has been spent trying to find ways of reducing the environmental pollution and social damage caused by oil spills. In recent work with colleagues at Manchester and Vancouver, we have shown how prolonged public pressure brought genuine...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 19, 2021 | Comment
Tanja Bastia, Reader, Global Development Institute Transnational care takes various forms. People’s abilities to practice transnational care also varies and has, inevitably, been impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. I begin with two vignettes: doña Celia from Santa...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Armando Barrientos, Emeritus Professor of Poverty and Social Justice, Global Development Institute Social policy has traditionally focused on income, its distribution and redistribution. But wealth is increasingly coming into view on issues such as wealth taxes,...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Since May 2015 the Hrishipara Daily Financial Diary project has been recording all the daily money transactions of a sample of low-income households living in central Bangladesh. At the end of March 2021, we asked them about the transactions they hadn’t made. The...
