by Global Development Institute | Apr 17, 2020 | News, Uncategorized
For almost a decade, development organizations have used digital human behavioral data, or “digital crumbs,” to gauge responses to the increasingly complex development challenges of the 21st century. Large quantities of data generated from social media interactions,...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 16, 2020 | Comment
Covid-19 is affecting all of us, but in varying ways. It helps to map some of these diverse effects – and possible responses – for a particular group that we’re part of or support: social science research students. Because Covid-19 is having such far-reaching effects...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 3, 2020 | Comment
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute The pandemic of novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has infected unwitting hosts all around the world. Some estimate suggests up to three in four of a population can be infected with about 4% of those...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 3, 2020 | Comment
How the approach of Covid-19 has affected low-income households in central Bangladesh. Liaqat (not his real name) is a newspaper vendor and a volunteer ‘diarist’ in the Hrishipara Daily Financial Diaries project. We have been tracking all his money transactions on a...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 25, 2020 | Comment
Diana Mitlin, Professor of Global Urbanism, Global Development Institute The global spread of Covid-19 poses particular risks for the one billion people living in informal urban settlements in the global South. A range of factors make transition of the virus more...
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...
