The puzzle of women’s empowerment and their health in urban Bangladesh
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute Empowering women is firmly recognised as a key driver to development and empowered women an essential achievement of it. They can take part in the political affairs of the nation more actively, in the...
‘Collateral damage’ of UN Peacekeeping Missions: stories from Darfur
Tanja Müller, Professor of Political Sociology, Global Development Institute It was a cold day in February 2016. I arrived at the main train station in a UK city and took a taxi to an address in a suburb. The taxi driver looked at the postcode and asked if I was sure...
New research highlights how poverty alleviation efforts are shaping the success of environmental targets linked to SDGs
Social protection programs can facilitate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) but can also create trade-offs across divergent social and environmental goals that can undermine their effectiveness, say the authors of new research published in the...
Covid-19 and the Hrishipara Diarists – July 2020: a big rebound – but only for some
The story so far These blogs offer a running commentary on how 60 low-income households in central Bangladesh who volunteer as ‘diarists’ in our daily financial diary project have coped with the pandemic. The first blog in this series was written just after a ‘corona...