by Global Development Institute | Sep 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Nana Agyeman, MSc. Development Economics and Policy, Global Development Institute Much of the conversation around debt in Africa has been about its growing size, while very little attention has been paid to the terms and conditions under which African countries...
by Global Development Institute | May 20, 2021 | Comment
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, many countries imposed severe restrictions or lockdowns on a swath of activities across society. Uganda is no exception. On 20 March 2020, a stay at home...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 8, 2020 | Comment
Prof David Hulme, Global Development Institute Oxfam’s reports on inequality have grabbed the headlines over the years – “8 men own the same wealth as 3.6 billion people” won global media coverage a few years ago and challenged many of the world’s business elite at...
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...
