by Global Development Institute | Apr 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Chris Jordan, Communications and Impact Manager [Visit the NGO explorer site here] After setting out to better understand the UK’s development NGO sector, Dan Brockington and Nicola Banks soon realised that pulling together the data on thousands of charities would be...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 17, 2019 | Uncategorized
The Hrishipara Daily Diary Project tracks the daily money transactions of households in central Bangladesh. This is the third in our series ‘Tracking Transactions, Understanding Lives’, which focuses on individual diarists, creating pictures that give a sense of what...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 11, 2019 | Uncategorized
Listen or watch Associate Professor Franklin Obeng-Odoom, University of Helsinki, discuss his upcoming book on property, institutions, and social stratification in Africa. Listen or watch to the lecture in full below. You can subscribe to the podcast on: Spotify...
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...
