Institute of Development Studies Research Repository: Recent submissions
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Strengthening Social Accountability for Meaningful Youth Engagement in Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-11-15)Following its research which highlighted the key role played by young people in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Organisation for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa (OSSREA) developed and delivered ... -
Rigour, Timeliness, and Trade-offs in Research: Experience From India’s Swachh Bharat Mission
(Routledge, 2023-10)This article presents lessons learnt from the evolution and usage of rapid action learning methods developed to support the Swachh Bharat Mission – Gramin (the Clean India Mission – Rural) in India. The Mission, started ... -
Report on Development of Children with Disabilities’ and Parents’ Wellbeing and Inclusion Checklist Tool 2023 - Phase 2
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-11)This report describes participatory research undertaken in 2023 as part of the UK-aid funded Disability Inclusive Development programme. Under this programme, Task Order 27 developed a model of disability-inclusive education ... -
Digitalisation and Subnational Tax Administration in Nigeria
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-11)There has recently been an expansion in the use of digital financial services and digital IDs by tax authorities. However, the extent to which such technologies are being adopted and data from them used strategically to ... -
Insights for Influence: Understanding Impact Pathways in Crisis Response
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-11-10)The Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) programme was a three-year initiative funded by the Canadian International Development Research Centre (IDRC) that brought together 20 projects from across the global South to ... -
Policy Analysis of Child Labour in Nepal
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-10)The Government of Nepal is committed to addressing the issue of child labour and to making Nepal child labour free, as evidenced through continued enactment and implementation of laws, policies, rules, procedures, ... -
Not-So-Freeway: Informal Highway Taxation and Armed Groups in North-East India
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-11)What are the effects of rebel taxation? Along arterial roads in north-east India, various non state armed groups collect ‘tax’ – of different types and amounts, with varied degrees of coercion and systematisation. Based ... -
Tax Treaty Shopping and Developing Countries: Serious Potential for Tax Revenue Losses
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-11)Analysis of the international network of double tax treaties reveals a large potential for tax avoidance. Developing countries are not, on average, more likely to suffer from tax revenue losses than other countries. Yet, ... -
Life Stories From Children Working in Bangladesh’s Leather Sector and its Neighbourhoods: Told and Analysed by Children
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-11-06)CLARISSA (Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia) has a participatory and child-centred approach that supports children to gather evidence, analyse it themselves and generate solutions to ... -
Children with Disabilities’, their Parents’ and Teachers’ Changing Perceptions and Experiences of Disability Inclusive ECDE in 2 Sites in Kenya
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-10)This report present findings from the second phase of participatory qualitative research for a project in Kenya which is aiming to develop understanding and practice of disability inclusive early child development and ... -
Digitalisation for a Just Social Compact: Global South Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Institute of Peruvian Studies, 2023-11)This policy paper responds to global and localised calls for a new social compact. It acknowledges the central role of digital inclusion and equity in mitigating the health and economic risks associated with the COVID-19 ... -
Big Data for Development Studies? An Innovative Methodology
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-10-31)This paper makes a foundational methodological contribution to the analysis of big data for development studies. Big data has revolutionised the natural and applied sciences (and commerce). However, its use within development ... -
Trust and Compliance with Covid-19 Measures among Nigerian Households
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-10-30)This paper probes the relationship between sources of Covid-19 information and adherence to preventive measures in Nigeria, a context characterised by fake news, hate speech, and other forms of disinformation. While this ... -
Tracking Gender-Based Violence and Backlash Against Women’s Rights in the Digital Space: Cases From Bangladesh
(BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD), BRAC University, 2022-01-22)With the increased use of the internet and the expansion of social media platforms usage worldwide, the digital space has emerged as a “new space,” playing a central role in mediating all aspects of social, economic, and ... -
Is Transparency Enough? An Examination of the Effect of the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) on Accountability, Corruption and Trust in Zambia
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-10)The Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) is the leading global transparency standard for the extractive industry. It aims to improve governance standards in the extractive industry by providing a public ... -
Ending Extreme Poverty Amidst Fragility, Conflict, and Violence
(Data and Evidence to End Extreme Poverty Research Programme/Oxford Policy Management, 2023-07)Fragile contexts experience a range of political, security, environmental, social, economic and human capital constraints, and are typically characterised by limited government authority, legitimacy, and capacity (OECD, ... -
Using Digital Technologies to Improve Tax Collection – the Case of Togo
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-10)The increasing digitalisation of African economies over the past decade, and the spread of mobile money and digital financial services (DFS), has given both opportunities and challenges to tax administrations in Africa. ... -
Agricultura familiar y su proceso de recuperación de los impactos del Covid-19 en Alta Verapaz y Sacatepéquez: Percepciones desde las y los productores
(RIMISP, 2022-07)En una primera valoración de la afectación de la pandemia a la agricultura familiar, se identificaron los principales impactos directos e indirectos del Covid-19 en Alta Verapaz y Sacatepéquez durante el período ... -
Estado de la recuperación de la agricultura familiar frente al COVID-19 en Alta Verapaz y Sacatepéquez, Guatemala. Informe de actualización.
(RIMISP, 2022-08)El presente constituye la tercera entrega de seguimiento a los impactos que ha tenido la pandemia para los productores familiares de brócoli y cacao en Alta Verapaz y las hortalizas en Sacatepéquez . En las dos rondas ... -
Gobernanza de los Sistemas Alimentarios: Análisis de Arreglos Formales de Gobernanza
(RIMISP, 2022-10)Los resultados del proyecto Siembra Desarrollo: Pequeña Agricultura y Alimentación resilientes al Covid-19, nos permiten identificar impactos en la agricultura familiar y el sistema alimentario, en dos niveles: el primero ...