by Global Development Institute | May 23, 2018 | Uncategorized
‘Farmer-led’ irrigation may exceed all ‘official’ schemes, effectively doubling the amount of irrigated land in sub-Saharan Africa. This policy brief identifies the implications for irrigation policy and agricultural management, summarising the opportunities and...
by Global Development Institute | May 18, 2018 | Uncategorized
What limits the impact of foreign aid programmes? If frontline workers had freedom to experiment could aid effectiveness be improved? What in the aid bureaucracy and political environment constrains flexibility? David Hulme & Nicola Banks lead this exciting...
by Global Development Institute | May 16, 2018 | Uncategorized
This week BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur interviews Kaushik Basu, the former chief economist at the World Bank and economics advisor to the Indian government for the latest in the Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures podcast series. Basu discusses the implications...
by Global Development Institute | May 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Sara Rich Dorman gave a lecture entitled ‘Understanding Zimbabwe: from liberation to authoritarianism’ You can listen to the podcast, or watch the lecture below. Find out more about the other talks in our GDI Lecture series Understanding Zimbabwe with Sara Rich Dorman...
by Global Development Institute | May 15, 2018 | Uncategorized
Varsha S. Kulkarni is at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, U.S. and Raghav Gaiha is (Hon.) Professorial Research Fellow, Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, England Plutarch was right when he said that an imbalance between rich and...
by Global Development Institute | May 10, 2018 | Comment
Global Development Institute researcher Dr Richard Duncombe is the editor of a new book sharing research and practice on current trends in digital technology for agricultural and rural development in the Global South. The population of the Global South is growing...
by Global Development Institute | May 9, 2018 | Uncategorized
In this week’s Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures podcast series, BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur interviews Alex Schwartsman is a Brazilian economist and former Director of International Affairs of the Central Bank of Brazil. The interview examines the genesis of...
by Global Development Institute | May 2, 2018 | Uncategorized
In the latest Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures podcast series, BBC Hardtalk’s Stephen Sackur interviews Yukon Huang, a former director World Bank Director for China and Russia. They discuss China’s economic prospects and its role in galvanising international...
by Global Development Institute | May 1, 2018 | Comment
For this Bangladeshi youth, finding work in Saudi Arabia meant more than getting a job offer and buying the plane ticket. In February 2016 we were recruiting respondents for the ‘financial diary’ research project in central Bangladesh in which we record, each day, all...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 25, 2018 | Uncategorized
To mark the completion of Rising Powers and Interdependent Futures, BBC Hardtalk presenter Stephen Sackur is hosting a podcast series examining the current issues and debates heighted by the research. The rising powers represent one of the main drivers of global...
