by Global Development Institute | Oct 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
Listen or watch Rachel Glennerster, the Chief Economist of the Department for International Development, discuss whether technology can solve global poverty. Prior to her current role she was the Executive Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, a...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 29, 2019 | Comment
In Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, local SDI groups have played a critical role in making participatory planning a reality. Dialogue on Shelter, the Zimbabwe Homeless People’s Federation, together with staff and students from the National University for Science and technology,...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
Listen or watch Professor Tony Shorrocks, Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, Senior Research Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki, and Director of Global Economic Perspectives Ltd,...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 22, 2019 | Comment
Diana Mitlin, Professor of Global Urbanism, is leading new research which looks into the importance of participatory planning and the co-production of knowledge in urban transformation. The latest paper, by sharing the experiences of the authors – as academics and...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 21, 2019 | Comment
Dr Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute On 14 October 2019 the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics to Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo and Michael Kremer “for their experimental approach to alleviating...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 15, 2019 | Comment
Dr Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute The story of mobile money in Africa, such as Mpesa, is one of the success stories to have arisen from the continent in recent years. A World Bank report in 2016, featured mobile money services,...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Listen or watch Raquel Rolnik, professor of Urban Planning at the University of São Paulo discuss her new book ‘Urban warfare: housing under the empire of finance’ In cities across the world the story is the same – housing is in crisis and...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 15, 2019 | Comment
In this episode, Raquel Rolnik talked to Tom Gillespie and Isaac Rose about the financialisation of housing and her new book ‘Urban Warfare: housing under the empire of finance’. Raquel Rolnik is a professor of Urban Planning at the University of São...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
Nick Jepson is a Hallsworth Fellow in Chinese political economy within the Global Development Institute at The University of Manchester. Later this year his book, In China’s Wake: How the Commodities Boom Transformed development strategies in the Global South, will be...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 8, 2019 | Comment
In this episode, Nick Jepson talks to Rhys Jenkins about China’s growing economic involvement in Africa and Latin America and his book ‘How China is Reshaping the Global Economy: Development Impacts in Africa and Latin America’ Rhys Jenkins is Professor of...
