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Global Land Deals: What Has Been Done, What Has Changed and What's Next?
(Land Deal Politics Initiative, 2024-01)In 2010, the Land Deals Politics Initiative formed to study the rising number of large-scale land deals taking place around the world. As the so-called ‘global land grab’ took shape, we organised small grant competitions ... -
E-tax System Adoption and Tax Compliance in Ethiopia: Large and Medium Taxpayers' Experience
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-01)In the last decade, tax administrations in developing countries have been introducing technological innovations such as e-filing and e-payment platforms. The main aim of introducing these technologies is to improve tax ... -
Resolving Tax Disputes: Market Vendors and Councils in Malawi
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-01)In local markets in Malawi, there are frequent tensions between market traders and the local councils who are responsible for the markets. This sometimes results in the traders refusing to pay market taxes. That in turn ... -
Finding the Missing Stone: Mobile Money and the Quality of Tax Policy and Administration
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-01)Making tax administration more efficient and maximising voluntary compliance is a very difficult task for developing countries. In this paper, we analyse the effect of mobile money payments on the quality of tax policy and ... -
Measurement and Mirage: The Informal Sector Revisited
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-01-29)Recent years have seen an increasing availability and usage of measurements of informal sectors as the basis of scholarship and policy advice on the causes and consequences of informality. This has created an impression ... -
Dispositions Towards the Living Wage Proposition: Baseline Report of the Rainforest Alliance Living Wage Strategy Evaluation
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-26)This paper reflects on the changes induced by modifications in the Rainforest Alliance certification system that require wage transparency from plantation owners, a comparison with the local living wage benchmark, and a ... -
The Importance of Assets for Coping with Covid-19 and Other Shocks
(Science Direct, 2024)Rural households in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala and Mexico experienced a series of shocks beginning in 2020, including the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment, loss of income, an abrupt increase in food prices, hurricanes, ... -
Integrated Knowledge Translation for Non-Communicable Diseases: Stories from Sub-Saharan Africa
(Ubiquity Press, 2023-12-08)Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) is a key strategy for contextualising, tailoring, and communicating research for policy and practice. In this viewpoint, we provide examples of how partners from five countries in ... -
Heterogeneous Market Participation Channels and Household Welfare
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-12-01)This paper uses panel data and qualitative interviews from southwestern Ghana to analyse farmers’ heterogeneous oil palm marketing decisions and the effect on household welfare. We show that despite the supposed benefits ... -
Community Solutions to Insecurity Along the Uganda–Kenya Border
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-12-19)In the Karamoja and Turkana border regions of Uganda and Kenya, there is widespread violence including armed robbery, rape, and human rights abuses, yet community complaints about failures of governance remain largely ... -
Disability, Religion, and Gender: Exploring Experiences of Exclusion in India Through an Intersectional Lens
(Cogitatio Press, 2023-12-05)Despite the existence of national and international laws and conventions to avoid discrimination in India, exclusion due to an intersection of disability, gender, and religious identity continues, resulting in marginalisation ... -
Digital Tax Policy and Tax Revenue Collection in Cameroon
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-12)Cameroon adopted a digital tax policy some eight years ago. Before full implementation of the digital tax policy in 2016, councils in Cameroon, especially local councils, reported many challenges due to delays and ... -
Evolving Meanings of ‘Principles’ in Agronomic Discourse
(Sage, 2023-11-09)The notion of principles, and the sense that they are different from but closely linked to practices, is deeply rooted in the agronomy literature. However, these terms are currently used by different authors to mean very ... -
Gender Disparity in Cocoa Production Resource Access and Food Security in Ogun State, Nigeria
(African Journal of Food, Agriculture, Nutrition and Development, 2023-09-01)Understanding gender disparities in production resource allocation is critical for agricultural development and cannot be overstated. The study evaluated farmers’ access to cocoa production resources and its implication ... -
Equity in Food Systems Livelihoods: A Review of Conceptualisations, Approaches, and Actions
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-12-14)Food systems employ billions of people across the world, many of whom are socially and economically marginalised. The livelihoods within the food systems these people rely on tend to be precarious and low in economic return, ... -
Stories of Change: Covid-19 Responses for Equity
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-12-13)Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) was a three-year, CA$25m rapid research initiative that brought together 20 research projects to understand the socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic, improve existing responses, and ... -
The Politics of Policy Failure in Ghana: The Case of Oil Palm
(Elsevier, 2023-09-01)The paper argues that political economy factors have hindered the development of the oil palm value chain in Ghana, which has consistently underperformed despite significant policy support and the sector’s strategic ... -
Precarious Prospects? Exploring Climate Resilience of Agricultural Commercialization Pathways in Tanzania and Zimbabwe
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-09-01)Smallholder agricultural commercialization is a central objective across Africa, one linked to poverty reduction, sectoral transformation and increasingly, climate resilience and adaptation. There is much attention given ... -
Building Twenty-first Century Agricultural Research and Extension Capacity in Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2023-08-01)This study explores the effectiveness of international efforts to build the capacities of national agricultural research and extension systems (NARES) in Africa and proposes actions to improve the performance of these ...
