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Linking Business Environment Reform with Gender and Inclusion: A Study of Business Licensing Reform in Indonesia
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-01)Business environment reform (BER) targets inadequate business regulations. It is intended to remove constraints to business investment, enabling growth and job creation, and create opportunities for international business ... -
Financial Incentives to Reduce Female Infanticide, Child Marriage and Promote Girl’s Education: Institutional and Monitoring Mechanisms
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-12-18)The focus of this paper is on the complementary mechanisms and interventions likely to increase the effectiveness and impact of conditional cash transfer (CCT) schemes in South Asia that aim to reduce female infanticide ... -
Financial Incentives to Reduce Female Infanticide, Child Marriage and Promote Girl’s Education: Impact
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-12-11)This review examines evidence on the key design features and impact of programmes that use Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) or baby bonds to reduce female infanticide, child marriage and promote girl’s education. Conditional ... -
Criminal Activity and Deforestation in Latin America
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-12-08)This review examines evidence on criminal deforestation activity in Latin America (particularly, but not exclusively the Amazon) and draws from the literature on the lessons learned in combatting criminal deforestation ... -
COVID-19 Health Evidence Summary No.107
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-01-11)This weekly COVID-19 health evidence summary (HES) is based on 3.5 hours of desk-based research. The summary is not intended to be a comprehensive summary of available evidence on COVID-19 but aims to make original documents ...