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Key Considerations: Child Engagement in the Context of Disease Outbreaks in Eastern and Southern Africa
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-04-17)Effective child engagement strategies are essential to optimise the response to disease outbreaks and minimise their impact while ensuring children's protection, well-being and resilience. When children understand disease ... -
Power, Trust, and Pre-Cooked Programmes: The Accountability of Social Assistance in Somalia
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-04-17)Social assistance in Somalia has become deeply embedded in the country’s political economy and struggles with systemic diversion and corruption, which negatively affects how programmes on accountability of aid function in ... -
Digital IDs and Digital Payments – Opportunities and Challenges for Tax Administration
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-04)Tax administrations in Africa and, more broadly, low-income countries (LICs), are increasingly investing in advanced digital technologies, in an effort to build more effective, rules-based and efficient tax systems. ... -
Taxing High Net Worth Individuals in Nigeria: Preliminary Insights and the Case of Borno State
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-04-12)This paper gives preliminary insights into the challenges surrounding the taxation of high net worth individuals (HNWIs) in Nigeria – first in general terms, and then with a specific focus on Borno State. The need to ... -
A Climate Treaty for the Global Taxation of Carbon
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-04-12)This paper aims to highlight the key policy considerations undertaken when drafting the articles that informed the text of the Multilateral Carbon Tax Treaty (MCTT). It is the product of the many comments received from the ...