by Global Development Institute | Apr 23, 2021 | Uncategorized
David Little Much of my career has been spent trying to find ways of reducing the environmental pollution and social damage caused by oil spills. In recent work with colleagues at Manchester and Vancouver, we have shown how prolonged public pressure brought genuine...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
Armando Barrientos, Emeritus Professor of Poverty and Social Justice, Global Development Institute Social policy has traditionally focused on income, its distribution and redistribution. But wealth is increasingly coming into view on issues such as wealth taxes,...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 8, 2021 | Uncategorized
Since May 2015 the Hrishipara Daily Financial Diary project has been recording all the daily money transactions of a sample of low-income households living in central Bangladesh. At the end of March 2021, we asked them about the transactions they hadn’t made. The...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 2, 2021 | Uncategorized
Dr Matthew Walsham, Research Associate, Global Development Institute and Dr Tanja Bastia, Reader, Global Development Institute In this blog, we mark this year’s International Women’s Day by reflecting on the heavy toll that Covid-19 has had on migrants across the...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 26, 2021 | Uncategorized
GDI offers a range of taught master’s programmes focusing on human resource management, organisational change, human resource development and managing and delivering development projects. The MSc Human Resource Management programme aims to equip learners with a robust...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Armando Barrientos, Emeritus Professor of Poverty and Social Justice, Global Development Institute Social protection has played a leading role in government responses to Covid-19. Public programmes providing income and in-kind transfers to vulnerable population groups...
