How attempts to empower women can affect household dynamics.
A reflection on women empowerment in slum upgrading projects by Esther Ndacyayisenga ‘’In some families women are still oppressed and can’t come up. In others, women have managed to cooperate with their husbands and still reap the benefits of the federation. And for...
Rwanda and Arsenal: Why a budding developmental state is sponsoring a football team
By Dr. Pritish Behuria, Hallsworth Research Fellow On 23 May, The Rwandan Development Board announced that it had signed a ‘Visit Rwanda’ sleeve sponsorship deal – worth around 10 million pounds a year for three years – with Arsenal F.C., the world’s best...
How mobile technology has supported farmers in Kenya
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...
Hrishipara daily financial diaries: Getting to the Gulf
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...