GDI Lecture Series: urban development and inequalities with Prof Diana Mitlin
On Wednesday, 4 Octobe, Prof Diana Mitlin gave a lecture entitled ‘Addressing shelter inequalities: Lessons from urban India’. You can watch the live stream below GDI Lecture: Diana Mitlin on urban development and inequalities from Global Development...
Writing about Africa – in defence of more journalistic inspiration for academic writing
Dr Tanja Müller, Global Development Institute In a contribution for a book on Africa’s media image in the 21st century, Michela Wrong provides a strong defence of Western journalists writing about Africa. One of her expertly made arguments concerns the different roles...
When poor households spend big
By Stuart Rutherford, Honorary Research Fellow at Global Development Institute In an earlier article in this series about the findings of a daily ‘financial diary’ research project in Bangladesh, we looked at the spending patterns of households (“What do poor...