by Global Development Institute | Oct 26, 2017 | Comment
Professor Richard Heeks recently delivered a seminar entitled ‘Decent Work and the Digital Gig Economy in Developing Countries’. You can listen to the podcast of the seminar below. This talk was based on Prof Heeks recent Development Informatics Working...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 23, 2017 | Comment
Prof Diana Mitlin, Managing Director, Global Development Institute The majority of research at GDI is made available either Green or Gold Open Access, and our GDI Working Paper Series is always free to download. Open Access is key in supporting the core values that...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 17, 2017 | Comment
Prof Diana Mitlin, Managing Director, Global Development Institute While global attention focuses on the Kenyan election, a process that will (arguably) make a much more significant difference to the wellbeing of the more than 3 million residents of Nairobi is already...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dr Tanja Müller, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, Global Development Institute On 13 Jan 08 at approximately 18:30 hrs a UN WFP driver was shot and wounded in an attempted carjacking. The UN WFP driver picked up a UN WFP radio operator to commence night shift...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
In the previous article about a daily ‘financial diary’ research project in Bangladesh, we looked at the biggest expenditures made by our diarists (“When poor households spend big”). Here we tell the stories behind a few of those big expenditures. A spending storm...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 9, 2017 | Comment
Dr Judith Krauss, Lecturer in Environment, Climate Change and Development, Global Development Institute The UK’s National Chocolate Week is here! What a fabulous invention for all those of us who love cocoa and chocolate – which, at least based on my...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 5, 2017 | Events
On Wednesday, 4 Octobe, Prof Diana Mitlin gave a lecture entitled ‘Addressing shelter inequalities: Lessons from urban India’. You can watch the live stream below GDI Lecture: Diana Mitlin on urban development and inequalities from Global Development...
by Global Development Institute | Sep 18, 2017 | Comment
Dr Tanja Müller, Global Development Institute In a contribution for a book on Africa’s media image in the 21st century, Michela Wrong provides a strong defence of Western journalists writing about Africa. One of her expertly made arguments concerns the different roles...
by Global Development Institute | Sep 15, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Stuart Rutherford, Honorary Research Fellow at Global Development Institute In an earlier article in this series about the findings of a daily ‘financial diary’ research project in Bangladesh, we looked at the spending patterns of households (“What do poor...
by Global Development Institute | Sep 12, 2017 | Comment
By Osman Ouattara, Global Development Institute; Eric Strobl, École Polytechnique; Jan Vermeiren, Kinetic Analysis Corporation and Stacia Yearwood, Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility. This blog first appeared on the Global Development Institute blog in...
