Institute of Development Studies Research Repository: Recent submissions
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Key Considerations: Operational Considerations for Building Community Resilience for COVID-19 Response and Recovery
(SSHAP, 2021-01-26)As the unequal impact of the COVID-19 pandemic continues, there is a need to robustly support vulnerable communities and bolster ‘community resilience.’ A community resilience approach means to work in partnership with ... -
Community Resilience: Key Concepts and their Applications to Epidemic Shocks
(SSHAP, 2021-01-26)The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed long-standing social inequalities and vulnerabilities, with the most disadvantaged and marginalised groups bearing the greatest health, social, and economic burdens. Beyond documenting ... -
COVID-19 Health Evidence Summary No.109
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-01-25)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 ... -
Trends in Conflict and Stability in the Indo-Pacific
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-01)This report looks at trends in conflict and instability in the Indo-Pacific region, focusing on climate change effects and a number of civil liberties. The Indo-Pacific region is both highly vulnerable to the effects of ... -
Overcoming Poverty in Multidimensional Poverty Interventions through Self-assessment and Mentoring
(Social Sciences School of Universidad de Palermo, Argentina, 2020-10-06)A microfinance organization in Paraguay has developed the “Poverty Stoplight” (PS), an innovative technological tool that allows families to self-assess their level of multidimensional poverty and start an ... -
Secession and Social Polarization: Evidence from Catalonia
(UNU-WIDER, 2021-01)Does secessionism lead to social polarization? Despite much research on independence movements, their relationship to polarization, a key mechanism theorized as increasing the chances of violent conflict, remains less ... -
The VAT in Practice: Equity, Enforcement and Complexity
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-01-23)The value added tax (VAT) is supposed to be a tax on consumption that achieves greater economic efficiency than alternative indirect taxes. It is also meant to facilitate enforcement through the ‘self-enforcing mechanism’ ... -
Newly Evolving Pastoral and Post-pastoral Rangelands of Eastern Africa
(2020-11-16)Over the past two decades, the rangelands of Eastern Africa have experienced sweeping changes associated with growing human populations, shifting land use, expanding livestock marketing and trade, and greater investment ... -
Capacidades governamentais municipais e desenvolvimento humano local no Brasil
(Escola Nacional de Administração Pública (ENAP), 2020-12-24)Este documento tiene como objetivo analizar la relación entre las capacidades municipales del estado y el desarrollo humano en Brasil. Con este fin, construimos un marco teórico-analítico que propone tipos de ... -
Intra-household Efficiency in Extended Family Households: Evidence from Rural India
(Taylor and Francis, 2021-01-11)The extended family household, in which multiple generations or married siblings of a family live together, is common in developing countries. We conducted a series of public goods experiments in such households in five ... -
The Impact of Business Environment Reforms on Poverty, Gender and Inclusion
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-01-04)This rapid review synthesises the literature from academic, policy, and knowledge institution sources on how business environment reforms in middle-income countries impacts on poverty, gender and inclusion. Although, there ... -
Revisiting Group Farming in a Post-socialist Economy: The Case of Romania
(Elsevier Ltd., 2020-12-11)In the 1990s, Romania decollectivised its agriculture under the Law on Agricultural Land Resources (Law 18/1991). Like many former socialist countries which had undertaken farm collectivization under socialism on a large ... -
Thinking and Working Politically on Transboundary Issues
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-01-18)There is growing consensus that political factors are a key determinant of development impact. The practice of Thinking and Working Politically (TWP) is built around three interconnected principles: (i) strong political ... -
Value Chain Governance: Entrance Points for Interventions to Address Children’s Harmful Work in Agriculture
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-01-21)This paper presents different types of governance mechanisms that can be present in a specific value chain and explores how these can be used or need to be modified in view of intentions to reduce children’s harmful work. ... -
Covid-19, Conflict, and Governance Evidence Summary No.28
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-01-15)The fortnightly Covid-19, Conflict, and Governance Evidence Summary aim to signpost the UK Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO) and other UK government departments to the latest evidence and opinions on ... -
Towards Enriching Understandings and Assessments of Freedom of Religion or Belief: Politics, Debates, Methodologies, and Practices
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021)Promoting the right to freedom of religion or belief (FoRB) is a foreign policy priority for several countries, their concerns accentuated by considerable evidence of rising levels of violations of this right worldwide. ... -
COVID-19 Health Evidence Summary No.108
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-01-18)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 ... -
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 ...
