by Global Development Institute | May 5, 2021 | Comment
Migración Transnacional en tiempos de pandemia en América Latina y el Caribe/ Transnational Migration in Times of a Pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean Descripción: Convocatoria abierta para migrantes y/o refugiados/refugiadas que estén en cualquier parte de...
by Global Development Institute | May 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
By Xi Xi and Kunkanit Sutamchai Publishing papers in journals is an effective approach to disseminate your research and communicate with peers in the research field. For a PhD student, having a paper published in an academic journal proves that you are capable to...
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...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 23, 2021 | Comment
The Global Development Institute offers a range of taught master’s programmes in international development, including four focusing on human resource management (MSc HRM), organisational change (MSc OCD), human resource management and development by distance learning...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 19, 2021 | Comment
GDI’s Human Resource Management course aims to equip learners with a robust theoretical framework for careers in HRM and at the same time to provide students with an opportunity to gain insights into practice-focused HRM across a wide range of management...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 4, 2021 | Comment
Rising disposable income, intensive product marketing and NGO encouragement has seen more women in India adopting modern pads and tampons instead of traditional menstrual management methods. But this has resulted in adverse effects on environment and waste management...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
Dr Matthew Walsham, Research Associate, Global Development Institute and Dr Tanja Bastia, Reader, Global Development Institute In this blog, we mark this year’s International Women’s Day by reflecting on the heavy toll that Covid-19 has had on migrants across the...
