by GDI | Oct 29, 2024 | Comment
by Dr Gindo Tampubolon, Reader in Global Health The COVID-19 pandemic forced countries to make difficult choices between protecting lives and supporting livelihoods, including jobs in global value chains (GVCs). While some countries reinforced onshore manufacturing...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
The Bangladesh government closed all schools on March 17th, 2020 as part of a ‘lockdown’ to combat the virus. Since then there have been several target dates for re-opening, but each has been cancelled and we still cannot be sure when the schools will open again....
by Global Development Institute | Oct 6, 2020 | Comment
Whitney Banyai-Becker (GDI), Charity Mwangi (SDI Kenya) and Jane Wairutu (SDI Kenya) explain how Muungano’s work with the Kenyan Ministry of Health is helping to find data-driven solutions to Covid-19 that are appropriate in informal settlements. Muungano wa...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
The story so far These blogs offer a running commentary on how 60 low-income households in central Bangladesh who volunteer as ‘diarists’ in our daily financial diary project have coped with the pandemic. The first blog in this series was written just after a ‘corona...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 4, 2020 | Comment
Prof Khalid Nadvi, Professor of International Development and Managing Director, Global Development Institute It is now abundantly clear that Covid-19 is a critical inflection point, not just for the severe public health impacts that have arisen from the virus across...