Covid-19 and low-income households in central Bangladesh
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...
Dealing with Covid-19 in the towns and cities of the global South
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...
COVID-19 pandemic brings into sharp relief the risks faced by South African gig workers
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....
Podcast: Addressing inequality in the labour market in South Africa with Imraan Valodia
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...
Hrishipara daily financial diaries: Low-income households in Bangladesh give as well as take loans
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...
In conversation: Siobhan McGrath on forced labour and marketising anti-slavery
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...
The US-China Trade War: The End of Multilateralism or the Search for a New Bargain?
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...
Fieldwork 2020 in Cape Town: Innovation and community.
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...