by Global Development Institute | May 20, 2020 | Comment
It is with deep sadness that I report the death of Md Saiful Islam (“Saiful bhai”) earlier this week in Bogra from a heart attack. Many Manchester colleagues have worked with Saiful over the last 20 years from when he was a Research Assistant on the Portfolios of the...
by Global Development Institute | May 19, 2020 | Comment
Dr Tanja Bastia, Reader, Global Development Institute and Professor Ronald Skeldon, Emeritus Professor, University of Sussex Since our Handbook of Migration and Development was published last month, the world has changed in an unimaginable way. Migration, or the...
by Global Development Institute | May 15, 2020 | Comment
Isis Barei-Guyot, PhD researcher, Global Development Institute Across the globe, we are collectively living a traumatic experience in the form of the coronavirus pandemic. In the global North there have been drastic changes to everyday life, rendering it almost...
by Global Development Institute | May 11, 2020 | Comment
The story so far The first blog in this series was written just after an anti-coronavirus lockdown was enforced in Bangladesh on 26th March 2020. We showed how the shock was dealt with at the time by the 60 low-income households in central Bangladesh who volunteer as...
by Global Development Institute | May 4, 2020 | Comment
In this episode, Seth Schindler & Tom Gillespie discuss their new research on deindustrialisation in the cities of the Global South. Seth and Tom have recently published an article on ‘Deindustrialization in cities of the Global South’ with Nicola...
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...
