by Global Development Institute | Dec 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
On Wednesday, 29 November, Prof Bill Ferguson, Grinnell College, delivered a lecture entitled ‘a political economy approach to collective action, inequality and development’. This lecture was the Annual Adrian Leftwich Memorial Lecture presented with the...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 16, 2017 | Uncategorized
Aarti Krishnan, Global Development Institute and the Overseas Development Institute Governance and power form the core of value chain analysis; however, these two concepts are multilayered, complex and fuzzy. Both truly tick ‘the more I read, the less I think I know’...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 6, 2017 | Uncategorized
Andy Sumner, Reader in International Development in the Department of International Development, King’s College London and director of the ESRC Global Poverty & Inequality Dynamics (GPID) Research Network and Lukas Schlogl, Research Associate with the ESRC GPID...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 30, 2017 | Uncategorized
In August 2017 Prof Uma Kothari, Global Development Institute, spoke at the EADI NORDIC 2017 conference on ‘Contesting Reconfigured Boundaries: Migration and Development’. The conference was a joint partnership between EADI (European Association of Development...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 11, 2017 | Uncategorized
Dr Tanja Müller, Senior Lecturer in Development Studies, Global Development Institute On 13 Jan 08 at approximately 18:30 hrs a UN WFP driver was shot and wounded in an attempted carjacking. The UN WFP driver picked up a UN WFP radio operator to commence night shift...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
In the previous article about a daily ‘financial diary’ research project in Bangladesh, we looked at the biggest expenditures made by our diarists (“When poor households spend big”). Here we tell the stories behind a few of those big expenditures. A spending storm...
