by Global Development Institute | Jul 17, 2020 | Comment
Charity Mumbi and Jack Makau work for Muungano wa Wanavijiji, a social movement of ‘slum’ residents and urban poor people in Kenya, affiliated to SDI International. In this podcast they describe the last few months of working through the initial outbreak...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
The story so far The first blog in this series was written just after a ‘corona lockdown’ was enforced in Bangladesh on 26th March 2020. It discussed the reaction to the shock of the 60 low-income households in central Bangladesh who volunteer as ‘diarists’ in our...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 8, 2020 | Uncategorized
Professor David Fielding joined the Global Development Institute earlier this year. We caught up with him about his research interests. What did you do before coming to Manchester? For the last 15 years, I’ve been at the University of Otago in New Zealand as...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 30, 2020 | Uncategorized
Watch Upasak Das’ webinar on ‘Using information and technology to improve efficacy of welfare programs: Evidence from India’. Dr Upasak Das is a Presidential Fellow at Global Development Institute. Note: This article gives the views of the...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
Osman Ouattara, Senior Lecturer, Development Economics, Global Development Institute Property Rights Revisited The importance of institutional governance, such as a strong rule of law, a lack of corruption, etc. for growth and development is widely recognised within...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 22, 2020 | Comment
Dr Vidhya Unnikrishnan, Lecturer in Development Economics, Global Development Institute Estimates by ILO shows that 92 % of the total employment in India is at the informal sector who are not protected by any formal pension system. The informal sector is characterized...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 16, 2020 | Comment
In this special podcast, we are lucky to be joined by the editors of the newly published Routledge Handbook of Migration and Development, Tanja Bastia and Ronald Skeldon. In this episode, they talk about their long-term collaboration in the fields of migration and...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 15, 2020 | Comment, Uncategorized
How can organisations manage the tensions between business goals and international development goals? These tensions often derail projects, organisations and partnerships but a newly-published paper identifies three strategies used in initiatives that sustain:...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
Watch an extract of Natalie Cunningham’s webinar on ‘Engaging with complexity, ambiguity and identity – a leadership challenge for leaders in the world of development’. Dr Natalie Cunningham is Lecturer in Leadership for Development at Global...
by Global Development Institute | Jun 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
The story so far The first blog in this series was written just after an anti-corona lockdown was enforced in Bangladesh on 26th March 2020. We showed how the shock was dealt with by the 60 low-income households in central Bangladesh who volunteer as ‘diarists’ in our...
