by Global Development Institute | May 6, 2016 | Comment
By Dan Silver, Diana Mitlin and Sophie King “We are poor, but we are not hopeless. We know what we are doing”. This is Alinah Mofokeng, one of three activists from the South African alliance of community organizations and support NGOs affiliated to Shack / Slum...
by Global Development Institute | May 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
What’s the current focus of your research? My research focuses on the priorities of low income households in urban areas, looking at what’s happening and how things can be improved. I’m pretty obsessive about maintaining this focus so it doesn’t really change. In...
by Global Development Institute | May 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
On 19-20 May the GDI will be hosting a conference on ‘Imagining Solidarity: Visual representations of development in public campaigns’. The aim of this conference is to explore the realm of the visual to examine how the complex relations of embodied,...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 29, 2016 | Comment, Uncategorized
By Aarti Krishnan, PhD researcher, Global Development Institute As clouds scudded across a beautiful crimson sky, I remember sensing a knot in the pit of my stomach. To be honest, it was the anticipation of going to an unknown country, but I do, however, recall...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
Judith Hayer, The University of Oxford, spoke as part of the Global Development Seminar Series. Her lecture examines data from a long-term study of villages north west of Tiruppur to compare manual and low-skilled employment options open to people who do not have...
