Institute of Development Studies Research Repository: Recent submissions
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Summary Report: BRiCE Project DRC and Niger. Teacher Wellbeing and Teaching Quality in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-23)Teachers and educators who work in fragile and conflict-affected contexts are at the forefront of complex crises which affect the schools they work in as well as their personal lives, and face extremely difficult working ... -
The Tax Response to COVID-19 in Ethiopia: Lessons for the Future
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-18)The government of Ethiopia, like other governments, has provided tax response measures in order to mitigate the socio-economic impacts of COVID-19. These measures, among others, include a waiver of outstanding tax liabilities ... -
Unravelling Backlash in the Journey of Legislating Sexual Offences in Uganda
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-18)This paper interrogates the reality of gender backlash in Uganda by tracing the process of legislating on the 2019 Sexual Offences Bill (SOB). We trace the early beginnings of the Bill by highlighting the motivation that ... -
Visual Nudges: How Deterrence and Equity Shape Tax Compliance Attitudes and Behaviour in Rwanda
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-16)Tax administrations in low-income countries engage in a variety of interventions to improve taxpayer compliance and close their countries’ financing gap. With this aim, the Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) has implemented ... -
Translating Northeastern Neo-Aramaic Idioms into English
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-17)Northeastern Neo-Aramaic (also known as NENA) languages and literature are a prosperous and encouraging field of research. They abound with oral traditions and expressions that incorporate various spoken forms including ... -
Kakai Religion and the Place of Music and the Tanbur
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-13)This paper discusses the historical context and mythic framework of the Kakai religion. While some information regarding Kakai theological views and beliefs may be known to outsiders, many facets of their religious life, ... -
‘The Spatial Void Could be a Chance to Recreate’: Queer Visual Activism in the Fallout of the Beirut Blast
(Lectito Journals, 2022-12-30)On August 4th, 2020, Beirut was torn apart by a chemical explosion at its port. The blast was a consequence of dire government negligence – killing over 200 people, injuring a further 6,500, and causing massive destruction. ... -
Disability Inclusive Early Childhood Development and Education in Humanitarian Settings
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01)This review looks at the available evidence on disability inclusion in early childhood development and education in humanitarian settings. It found that little evidence and guidance is available relating specifically to ... -
The Devil in the Detail: Examining Ghana’s New e-Levy From a Policy-design Perspective
(Institute of Development Studies, 2022-11-10)This is the second webinar in DIGITAX’s e-levy series ‘The devil in the detail: Examining Ghana’s new e-levy from a policy design perspective. There has been much debate around the implications of the e-levy since it was ... -
Governance Diaries: An Approach to Researching Marginalized People’s Lived Experiences in Difficult Settings
(SAGE Publications, 2023-01-12)How do chronically poor and marginalized citizens interact with and make claims to the different public authorities that exist in fragile, conflict and violence-affected contexts? In other words, how does governance from ... -
From One Flooding Crisis to the Next: Negotiating ‘the Maybe’ in Unequal Karachi
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022-12-07)Every few years, Karachi floods during the summer monsoon. The flooding brings latent manoeuvrings by political actors looking to establish their hold over the city to the surface. Politicians, urban administrators, and ... -
Beyond the Genome: Genetically Modified Crops in Africa and the Implications for Genome Editing
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2023-01-05)Genome editing—a plant-breeding technology that facilitates the manipulation of genetic traits within living organisms—has captured the imagination of scholars and professionals working on agricultural development in Africa. ... -
Global Queer and Feminist Activism: An Introduction
(Lectito BV, 2022-12-30)Queer and feminist visual activism has various origins across the globe and has emerged in a fluid cultural field of visual arts, popular culture, and protest aesthetics. Given the current context of gender backlash, these ... -
Grasping Patriarchal Backlash: A Brief for Smarter Countermoves
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-03)Nearly three decades ago the UN World Conference on Women at Beijing appeared to be uniting the international community around the most progressive platform for women’s rights in history. Instead of steady advancement, we ... -
Caste and Gender Backlash: A Study of the #MeToo Movement in Tertiary Education in Kolkata, India
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-03)In the light of the #MeToo movement, this paper explores how the positionality (in terms of caste and class) of female university students in Kolkata, India is employed as an instrument of backlash to pushback their efforts ... -
Tackling Online Gender-Based Violence; Understanding Gender, Development, and the Power Relations of Digital Spaces
(Routledge, 2022-09-09)Digital systems now mediate our everyday social practices, political and economic lives. But ICT4D (ICT for development) research exploring the relationship between gender, technology and development has only had a limited ... -
The Resistance Strikes Back: Women’s Protest Strategies against Backlash in India
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-12-07)The Shaheen Bagh site epitomised the longest sit-in intergenerational protests in India since Independence. Especially novel about these protests was the presence and leadership of first-time Muslim women protestors. Shaheen ... -
Nothing is as it Seems: ‘Discourse Capture’and Backlash Politics
(Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group, 2021-12-07)In this article, in response to several calls for new theoretical andanalytical tools to help us understand the nature of contemporaryanti-feminist and anti-queer politics, I introduce the concept of‘discourse capture’. I ... -
It’s Time to Reform Transfer Pricing Benchmarking
(Tax Notes International, 2022-06-06)The malfunction of commonly used transfer pricing methods has been central to the problem of base erosion and profit shifting that has motivated the ongoing tax reform efforts of the OECD and its inclusive framework. ... -
Everyday Governance in Areas of Contested Power: Insights from Mozambique, Myanmar and Pakistan
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2022-12-05)How do poor and marginalized people solve problems and claim rights and entitlements in places affected by conflict and where state authority is contested? Understanding such processes is important as the numbers of poor ...