Covid-19 and the Hrishipara Diarists: May 2020: climbing for a fall?
The story so far The first blog in this series was written just after an anti-corona lockdown was enforced in Bangladesh on 26th March 2020. We showed how the shock was dealt with by the 60 low-income households in central Bangladesh who volunteer as ‘diarists’ in our...
GDI Webinar: Women’s empowerment and healthy digital dividends with Dr Gindo Tampubolon
Watch Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty at The Global Development Institute discusses ‘Women’s empowerment and healthy digital dividends: Depression in Dhaka slums 2018’ Note: This article gives the views of the author/academic featured and...
Covid-19 pandemic and Ghana’s policy interventions so far
Thomas Agyekum Kyeremeh, Doctoral Researcher, Global Development Institute The globe is at a critical juncture of a deadly novel pandemic which appears to have taken virtually everyone by surprise. Global leaders, multinational corporations, state institutions, local...
All in this together? How a decade of austerity cleared the way for Covid-19 in deprived urban areas
Tom Gillespie, Hallsworth Research Fellow, Global Development Institute and Kate Hardy, Associate Professor, University of Leeds Addressing world leaders on Monday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed that ‘it is humanity against the virus – we are in this...