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  • Changing Narratives Around Humanitarian Protection and Gender‑Based Violence: An Artistic Journey 

    Allouche, Jeremy (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-03-27)
    Art is enjoying a resurgence among researchers, activists, and practitioners as a powerful medium to challenge conventional narratives around humanitarian protection, and give access to a broader range of perspectives. As ...
  • K4DD Test 

    Test, Test (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-03)
    This is a test for K4DD.
  • Indirect Rule: Armed Groups and Customary Chiefs in Eastern DRC 

    Henn, Soeren J.; Marchais, Gauthier; Mastaki Mugaruka, Christian; Sánchez de la Sierra, Raúl (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02)
    This paper leverages a novel panel dataset covering the histories of 306 chiefs and 256 episodes of village governance and taxation by armed groups in 106 villages in eastern DRC in order to analyse the relationship ...
  • Engendering Taxation: a Research and Policy Agenda 

    Joshi, Anuradha; Kangave, Jalia; van den Boogaard, Vanessa (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-03)
    Increased attention has been paid to the gender dimensions of taxation in recent years, though there has been limited research on the subject – particularly in lower-income contexts. Understanding how tax policies might ...
  • Re-evaluating Uganda’s Mobile Money Tax 

    Wales, Christopher (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-01)
    The current system for taxing mobile money in Uganda is widely disliked, unbalanced, and arguably distortionary. We show there is a case to re-evaluating it, with a view to principled reform. But there is also a case ...

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