by GDI | Sep 30, 2026 | Comment
by Gindo Tampubolon Yesterday, Prime Minister Andy Burnham proposed a National Care Service, free at the point of need, modelled on the National Health Service. The proposal is personal. Alzheimer’s disease recently robbed him of his father, who did not know...
by Global Development Institute | Dec 13, 2017 | Uncategorized
By Vegard Iversen, Anirudh Krishna and Kunal Sen In spite of recent and unprecedented poverty reduction, the notion that an individual’s expected level of achievement should be ‘a function only of his effort and not of his circumstances’ remains a distant ideal. While...
by Global Development Institute | Aug 15, 2016 | Comment
By Kunal Sen, Professor Of Development Economics & Policy, Global Development Institute A question of long-standing interest among social scientists is the degree to which an individual’s status in society is determined by the position of one’s parents. In...
