by Global Development Institute | Nov 15, 2017 | Comment
For the few years, Dan Brockington of the Sheffield Institute for International Development and Nicola Banks of GDI, have been engaged on an epic project to map UK NGOs focused on development. The database they have compiled on the 900 organisations that spend over...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 3, 2017 | Comment
Be a fly on the wall as GDI’s Executive Director, Prof David Hulme, interviews Prof Dani Rodrik, Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, about globalisation, inequality and trade, as...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 27, 2017 | Comment
On Thursday, 26 October, Prof Dani Rodrik of the Harvard Kennedy School delivered the Global Development Institute Annual Lecture as part of the GDI Lecture Series. The lecture was entitled the economics of populism. You can watch the livestream below. You can also...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 23, 2017 | Comment
Prof Diana Mitlin, Managing Director, Global Development Institute The majority of research at GDI is made available either Green or Gold Open Access, and our GDI Working Paper Series is always free to download. Open Access is key in supporting the core values that...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
In the previous article about a daily ‘financial diary’ research project in Bangladesh, we looked at the biggest expenditures made by our diarists (“When poor households spend big”). Here we tell the stories behind a few of those big expenditures. A spending storm...