by Global Development Institute | Oct 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Professor Diana Mitlin, CEO of the African Cities Research Consortium Covid-19 has brought a new realization to many governments and development agencies. Investment in towns and cities is essential. People need to live in healthy neighbourhoods with access to basic...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dr Amani Abou-Zeid, African Union Commissioner for Infrastructure, Energy, ICT and Tourism, discusses Africa: 75 years after the Manchester Pan-African Congress. Dr Amani Abou-Zeid is currently the African Union Commissioner for Infrastructure, Energy, ICT and...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
Elliot Nicholls The idea is simple, reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation by paying local communities to conserve tropical forests. Not only does this mitigate climate change, but it also has the ability to enhance local livelihoods. A true win-win...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 27, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sylvia Nyarko, GDI Merit Scholar, 2018/2019. I believe Covid-19 has come to stay and is far from over. Its ripple effects and impacts have greatly been felt by all including academics. Those mostly at loss are the PhD and MPhil students who require primary data for...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Bangladesh government closed all schools on March 17th, 2020 as part of a ‘lockdown’ to combat the virus. Since then there have been several target dates for re-opening, but each has been cancelled and we still cannot be sure when the schools will open again....
by Global Development Institute | Sep 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
To celebrate their new book, The Routledge Handbook of Place, Ares Kalandides, Tim Edensor and GDI’s Uma Kothari took part in an online launch event organised by Institute of Place Management. The event also featured chapter writers David Cooper, Jenny...
