by Global Development Institute | Mar 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Listen or watch Professor Katherine Brickell, Royal Holloway, University of London, discuss her ESRC-DFID funded study on the relationship between modern slavery and climate change in Cambodian brick kilns. Find out more about her Blood Bricks project. Listen or watch...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 25, 2019 | Comment, Uncategorized
In this episode Chris Jordan, GDI’s Communications & impact Manager, talks to social assistance expert Professor Armando Barrientos. They discuss why Armando decided to specialise in social assistance and how it has changed over the last 20 years. Professor...
by Global Development Institute | Feb 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
Chris Foster, Presidential Fellow at the Global Development Institute, One of the benefits often associated with digital technologies is the potential for disintermediation – or put more simply “cutting out the middleman”. This concept forms the basis for many hopes...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Since May 2015 we have been recording the daily money transactions of up to 70 households living near a small market town in central Bangladesh. These ‘daily financial diaries’ shed light on the money-management behaviour of low-income households, described in papers...
by Global Development Institute | Jan 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
We are delighted to announce a flagship international conference convened by Effective States and Inclusive Development research centre, Global Development Institute, The University of Manchester. Confirmed plenary speakers include world leading experts Anne Marie...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 18, 2018 | News, Policy, Uncategorized
Wei Liu and Heiner Janus China’s development agency released a new draft of “Measures for the Administration of Foreign Aid” on 13 November, asking for comments from the public. The measures clarify and guide the practices of all Chinese institutions engaged in...
