by Global Development Institute | May 26, 2020 | Comment
Dr Nicola Banks, Senior Lecturer in Urban Development and Professor David Hulme, Professor of Development Studies On 21 May we had the pleasure of attending a webinar and report launch hosted by our long-standing research partners in Bangladesh, the BRAC Institute of...
by Global Development Institute | May 15, 2020 | Comment
Isis Barei-Guyot, PhD researcher, Global Development Institute Across the globe, we are collectively living a traumatic experience in the form of the coronavirus pandemic. In the global North there have been drastic changes to everyday life, rendering it almost...
by Global Development Institute | May 11, 2020 | Comment
The story so far The first blog in this series was written just after an anti-coronavirus lockdown was enforced in Bangladesh on 26th March 2020. We showed how the shock was dealt with at the time by the 60 low-income households in central Bangladesh who volunteer as...
by Global Development Institute | May 6, 2020 | Uncategorized
Tom Gillespie, Hallsworth Research Fellow, Global Development Institute and Kate Hardy, Associate Professor, University of Leeds Addressing world leaders on Monday, UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson claimed that ‘it is humanity against the virus – we are in this...
by Global Development Institute | May 4, 2020 | Comment
In this episode, Seth Schindler & Tom Gillespie discuss their new research on deindustrialisation in the cities of the Global South. Seth and Tom have recently published an article on ‘Deindustrialization in cities of the Global South’ with Nicola...
