Covid-19 and the Future of “Made in the World”
Dr Shamel Azmeh, Lecturer in International Development, Global Development Institute In recent decades, a growing number of books and documentaries have attempted to understand globalisation through following the journey of “things” across the world. The Travels of a...
Are South-South value chains more resilient in the age of Covid-19? Insights from Eswatini’s apparel
Giovanni Pasquali, Research Associate, Global Development Institute, Shane Godfrey, University of Cape Town Read the full research briefing here The Covid-19 pandemic is having major implications for the resilience of apparel global value chains (GVCs). State-driven...
In conversation: Charity Mumbi and Jack Makau on Covid-19 in Kenya’s informal settlements
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...
Covid-19 and the Hrishipara Diarists – June 2020: still waiting
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...
Prof David Fielding discusses diversity dividends in Ethiopia
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...
GDI Webinar: Using information and technology to improve efficacy of welfare programs: Evidence from India
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...
New dataset on property rights
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...
The impact of old age pensions in India
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...