by Global Development Institute | Aug 26, 2016 | Comment
Fortunate Machingura, former PhD student at the Global Development Institute This blog has been republished from the Overseas Development Institute and was written by Fortunate Machingura, a GDI alumna who completed her PhD in Development Policy and...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 24, 2016 | Comment
What is the current focus of your research? My research tries to understand the connections between climate change, vulnerability and complex notions of risk. For the past nine years, I’ve been working on those issues in the context of Bangladesh, currently in Dhaka...
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...