Development Aid does not deter Irregular Migration
Gabriele Restelli, PhD researcher, Global Development Institute As Covid’s monopolizing power diminishes, immigration is ready to serve the purpose and fill the gap in headline news. Irregular migrants crossing the English Channel has gathered a lot of attention in...
‘Collateral damage’ of UN Peacekeeping Missions: stories from Darfur
Tanja Müller, Professor of Political Sociology, Global Development Institute It was a cold day in February 2016. I arrived at the main train station in a UK city and took a taxi to an address in a suburb. The taxi driver looked at the postcode and asked if I was sure...
New research highlights how poverty alleviation efforts are shaping the success of environmental targets linked to SDGs
Social protection programs can facilitate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but can also create trade-offs across divergent social and environmental goals that can undermine their effectiveness, say the authors of new research published in the...