Oil: from a lifetime of damage-limitation to outrage
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...
A brief primer on wealth for social policy.
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,...
Hrishipara Daily Financial Diary: The transactions our diarists didn’t make
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...
Gender and migration in the Global South – intersectional reflections on International Women’s Day
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...