by Global Development Institute | Apr 3, 2020 | Comment
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute The pandemic of novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, has infected unwitting hosts all around the world. Some estimate suggests up to three in four of a population can be infected with about 4% of those...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 3, 2020 | Comment
How the approach of Covid-19 has affected low-income households in central Bangladesh. Liaqat (not his real name) is a newspaper vendor and a volunteer ‘diarist’ in the Hrishipara Daily Financial Diaries project. We have been tracking all his money transactions on a...
by Global Development Institute | Mar 25, 2020 | Comment
Diana Mitlin, Professor of Global Urbanism, Global Development Institute The global spread of Covid-19 poses particular risks for the one billion people living in informal urban settlements in the global South. A range of factors make transition of the virus more...
