by Global Development Institute | Mar 18, 2020 | Comment
The Fairwork Project has launched its second round of yearly ratings for digital platforms in South Africa, which highlight the precarious nature of work in the gig economy South Africa’s has recently declared a “national state of disaster” because of coronavirus....
by Global Development Institute | Mar 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
Professor Imraan Valodia, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, recently visited the GDI to give a talk entitled ‘A National Minimum Wage – Addressing inequality in the labour market in South Africa? In January 2019, South Africa introduced a national...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Hrishipara Daily Diaries project has been recording the daily money transactions of 70 low-income households in central Bangladesh, in some cases since May 2015. Bangladesh is famous for its microfinance banks (MFIs) and most of our ‘diarists’ have accounts with...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 6, 2020 | Comment
In this episode, Dr Rory Horner talked to Dr Siobhán McGrath about her research into forced labour and the marketising anti-slavery. Siobhán McGrath is Assistant Professor in Human Geography at Durham University. Rory Horner, Senior Lecturer in Globalisation and...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 27, 2020 | Comment
Shamel Azmeh, Lecturer in International Development, Global Development Institute, Ken Shadlen Professor in International Development, London School of Economics and Political Science In recent years, the collapse of the multilateral economic regime has become a...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 26, 2020 | Comment
Jeannette Zes Giovani, Gloria Oviedo Perez and Danah Alzeiby, Management and Information Systems: Change and Development and ICTs for Development students Learning is always exciting, and it is even more amazing when we can witness real-life applications of the...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 19, 2020 | Uncategorized
Diana Mitlin, Professor of Global Urbanism, Global Development Institute Over the last few years, Bulawayo in Zimbabwe has experimented with a wide range of participatory planning techniques. A recent workshop in the city, also featuring experiences from Kenya and...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 18, 2020 | Comment
In this episode, GDI’s Nicola Banks talks to Jelmer Kamstra and Zoe Abrahamson about the political role of NGOs and how donor funding can support those. Jelmer Kamstra has been Senior Policy Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands in the...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 14, 2020 | Uncategorized
Listen or watch Jelmer Kamstra and Zoe Abrahamson discuss civil society aid as balancing act – navigating between managerial and social transformative principles. Jelmer Kamstra has been Senior Policy Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 12, 2020 | Comment
Francisca Álvarez-Figueroa, PhD Researcher, Global Development Institute I began my PhD in 2018 on the broad area of citizenship and organisational citizenship behaviours within the education sector under the supervision of Dr Chris Rees and Dr Kate Rowlands. My...
