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...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 20, 2020 | Uncategorized
Dr Shamel Azmeh, Lecturer in International Development, Global Development Institute In recent decades, a growing number of books and documentaries have attempted to understand globalisation through following the journey of “things” across the world. The Travels of a...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 17, 2020 | Comment
Giovanni Pasquali, Research Associate, Global Development Institute, Shane Godfrey, University of Cape Town Read the full research briefing here The Covid-19 pandemic is having major implications for the resilience of apparel global value chains (GVCs). State-driven...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
The story so far The first blog in this series was written just after a ‘corona lockdown’ was enforced in Bangladesh on 26th March 2020. It discussed the reaction to the shock of the 60 low-income households in central Bangladesh who volunteer as ‘diarists’ in our...
by Global Development Institute | May 19, 2020 | Comment
Dr Tanja Bastia, Reader, Global Development Institute and Professor Ronald Skeldon, Emeritus Professor, University of Sussex Since our Handbook of Migration and Development was published last month, the world has changed in an unimaginable way. Migration, or the...