by Global Development Institute | Aug 22, 2016 | Comment
Juan, originally from Colombia, completed his PhD in Development Policy and Management at GDI last year and is now living and working as an economist in Washington DC. He has also provided consultancy on a number of international poverty and economics projects, for...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 17, 2016 | Comment
Professor David Hulme, Executive Director, Global Development Institute Back in 1999 the Institute for Development Policy and Management started working with Stuart Rutherford (now an Honorary Research Fellow at the Global Development Institute) on a research project...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 15, 2016 | Comment
By Kunal Sen, Professor Of Development Economics & Policy, Global Development Institute A question of long-standing interest among social scientists is the degree to which an individual’s status in society is determined by the position of one’s parents. In...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 10, 2016 | Comment
David Hulme, Executive Director, Global Development Institute I am just back from Japan – a delightful visit with colleagues in Nagoya and Tokyo. The only cloud, in a very sunny week, was hearing about the scale of public support for a populist, nationalist right-wing...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 8, 2016 | Comment
Richard Heeks, Professor of Development Informatics, Global Development Institute At a recent CDI brown-bag discussion on data-intensive development, we hypothesised a mirror-image power dynamic between big data and open data. Open data has an inherent tendency to...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 26, 2016 | Comment
Effective States and Inclusive Development (ESID)Research Director Professor Sam Hickey delivered this seminar to The Development Policy Centre at Australia National University on ESID’s research. Which forms of politics matter most, how can these be conceptualised...
