Climate change, birth weight and smartphone: handsome digital dividends
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute Climate change threatens the next generation, as young activists around the world tell world leaders insistently. The unborn are not exempt. Secular temperature rises, covering pregnancy period, have...
Insecurity and care in the time of Covid-19
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute Brazil tops the rank of Covid-19 deaths in Latin America due, in no small measure, to the government’s response to the pandemic. The president dallies while the toll tallies. On the other side of the...
Hakainde Hichilema’s first 100 days: Continuity and change in Zambia’s New Dawn
Hangala Siachiwena, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Cape Town, Kate Pruce, ESRC Research Fellow, Global Development Institute, and Marja Hinfelaar Director of Research and Programs at the Southern African Institute for Policy and Research, SAIPAR Hakainde...
Building welfare states in Latin America. What about the workers?
Armando Barrientos, Emeritus Professor, Global Development Institute Read the first in this series ‘Why did Rawls reject welfare state capitalism?’ Read the second in this series ‘Building welfare states in Latin America, but which type? Welfare...
Building welfare states in Latin America, but which type?
Armando Barrientos, Emeritus Professor, Global Development Institute Read the first in this series ‘Why did Rawls reject welfare state capitalism?’ In response to the impact of Covid-19 on poverty and inequality in the region, ECLAC has called Latin...
Developing Fiscal States in Africa
Antonio Savoia recently took part in an online panel discussion hosted by UNU-WIDER and the OECD Development Centre. The event explored Developing Fiscal States in Africa bringing together academia, policy practitioners and development partners. The panel discussion...
Why did Rawls reject welfare state capitalism?
Armando Barrientos, Emeritus Professor, Global Development Institute In response to the impact of Covid-19 on poverty and inequality in the region, the Economic Commission for Latin America ECLAC has called for Latin American countries to build welfare states. Is this...
Corruption and innovation II: green innovations around the world
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute The Conference of Parties (COP) 26 and its Glasgow Pact to phase-down coal remind the world once again of the need to come up with innovative technology to adapt and to mitigate the effects of our...