by GDI | Sep 16, 2025 | Comment
by Professor Nicola Banks It’s been 20 years since the huge phenomenon of Make Poverty History. Nearly one-quarter of a million people marched the streets of Edinburgh. More than three billion worldwide watched Live 8. And over 7 million of us wore white wristbands in...
by GDI | Apr 24, 2024 | Comment
Written by Skyla Baily Bangladesh frequently garners attention as an example of development success, with extensive literature exploring its poverty dynamics and underlying drivers. In just over half a century since gaining independence, the nation has managed to...
by GDI | Mar 18, 2024 | Comment, Research Findings
Over the last 12 months, researchers at GDI and the South Asian Network for Economic Modelling (SANEM) have been exploring some of the effects of the “twin crises” in Bangladesh: the Covid-19 pandemic and the recent rise in the cost of living. This project is part of...
by Global Development Institute | Apr 5, 2017 | Comment
By Stuart Rutherford, Honorary Research Fellow at The Global Development Institute This is the fourth in a series of short articles about the findings of a daily ‘financial diary’ research project in Bangladesh. In this article, we look at the spending on health care...
by Global Development Institute | Nov 16, 2016 | Comment
By Stuart Rutherford, Honorary Research Fellow at The Global Development Institute Read the first in the series Read the second in the series This is the third in a series of short articles about the findings of a daily ‘financial diary’ research project. A...
