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...
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...
