by Global Development Institute | Oct 26, 2017 | Comment
Professor Richard Heeks recently delivered a seminar entitled ‘Decent Work and the Digital Gig Economy in Developing Countries’. You can listen to the podcast of the seminar below. This talk was based on Prof Heeks recent Development Informatics Working...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 23, 2017 | Comment
Prof Diana Mitlin, Managing Director, Global Development Institute The majority of research at GDI is made available either Green or Gold Open Access, and our GDI Working Paper Series is always free to download. Open Access is key in supporting the core values that...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 17, 2017 | Comment
Prof Diana Mitlin, Managing Director, Global Development Institute While global attention focuses on the Kenyan election, a process that will (arguably) make a much more significant difference to the wellbeing of the more than 3 million residents of Nairobi is already...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dr Tanja Müller, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, Global Development Institute On 13 Jan 08 at approximately 18:30 hrs a UN WFP driver was shot and wounded in an attempted carjacking. The UN WFP driver picked up a UN WFP radio operator to commence night shift...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
In the previous article about a daily ‘financial diary’ research project in Bangladesh, we looked at the biggest expenditures made by our diarists (“When poor households spend big”). Here we tell the stories behind a few of those big expenditures. A spending storm...
