By Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia Drawing on the personal narratives of 72 internally displaced people in Colombia, gathered between December 2013 and August 2014 for a PhD research project by Luis Eduardo Perez Murcia at the Global Development Institute, the below story...
A call for abstracts/presentations on ‘Mobile Technology for Agricultural and Rural Development in the Global South’. The workshop will be held on Wednesday, 20 October 2016. The deadline for abstracts is 31 July 2016. In recent years, there has been...
What’s the current focus of your research? My research focuses on the priorities of low income households in urban areas, looking at what’s happening and how things can be improved. I’m pretty obsessive about maintaining this focus so it doesn’t really change. In...
On 19-20 May the GDI will be hosting a conference on ‘Imagining Solidarity: Visual representations of development in public campaigns’. The aim of this conference is to explore the realm of the visual to examine how the complex relations of embodied,...
By Aarti Krishnan, PhD researcher, Global Development Institute As clouds scudded across a beautiful crimson sky, I remember sensing a knot in the pit of my stomach. To be honest, it was the anticipation of going to an unknown country, but I do, however, recall...
Judith Hayer, The University of Oxford, spoke as part of the Global Development Seminar Series. Her lecture examines data from a long-term study of villages north west of Tiruppur to compare manual and low-skilled employment options open to people who do not have...
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