by Global Development Institute | Oct 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
Listen or watch Rachel Glennerster, the Chief Economist of the Department for International Development, discuss whether technology can solve global poverty. Prior to her current role she was the Executive Director of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, a...
by Global Development Institute | Oct 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
Listen or watch Professor Tony Shorrocks, Honorary Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Manchester, Senior Research Fellow at the World Institute for Development Economics Research UNU-WIDER) in Helsinki, and Director of Global Economic Perspectives Ltd,...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 5, 2019 | Uncategorized
Daniel Díaz Vera, PhD Researcher, Global Development Institute For many people, the city of Medellin conjures images of drug traffickers, horrible murders and chaos. That image is probably due to series such as Netflix’s Narcos, rather than the current situation in...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 17, 2019 | Comment, Uncategorized
Gindo Tampubolon, Lecturer in Poverty, Global Development Institute 16 July 2019 marked the 50th anniversary of the moon landing with Apollo 11. That scientific and engineering pinnacle of planetary exploration has gone on to transform our place in the universe and...
by Global Development Institute | Jul 8, 2019 | Comment
Registration is open for our flagship international conference convened by the Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre on ‘From politics to power? Rethinking the politics of development’ which will be held from 9 – 11 September 2019 in...
