by Global Development Institute | Apr 27, 2020 | Comment
The estimated 50 million gig workers worldwide have been particularly hard-hit by the Covid-19 pandemic. How are their platforms responding, and what more should platforms do? Reports indicate half of gig workers have lost their jobs. Those still working perform...
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....
