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  • 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 ...
  • A Tax Strategy for a Digital Uganda 

    Wales, Christopher (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-01)
    The Government of Uganda has a vision for a digitally empowered society, which is set out in a wide range of government documents. Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) have their own digital strategies cascading ...
  • Does Cash-Plus Programming Work in Contexts of Protracted Crises? 

    Holland-Szyp, Carolina; Lind, Jeremy; Sabates-Wheeler, Rachel (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-03-18)
    Cash-plus programmes aim to strengthen food security and livelihoods by providing cash transfers alongside complementary support and services. In stable settings, these programmes can, to some extent, draw on established ...
  • The Role of Social and Behavioural Sciences in Emergencies and Crises 

    Grant, Catherine (Institute of Development Studies, 2024-01)
    This report considers crises and emergencies to include a full range of natural hazards, conflict, displacement, humanitarian, public health outbreaks, pandemics, and where these might overlap and become polycrises. The ...
  • Nuevas perspectivas para el desarrollo en base a recursos naturales: una visión neo-schumpeteriana para América Latina 

    Marín, Anabel; Pérez, Carlota (Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), 2024-03)
    El estancamiento económico y las limitaciones para sostener un proceso de desarrollo sostenido en América Latina en las últimas décadas demandan un replanteo profundo y audaz de las políticas de desarrollo productivo y ...

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