Impact Initiative: Recent submissions
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Women's Economic Status and Sexual Negotiation: Re-evaluation of the 'Normative Precedent' in Tanzania
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)Women's ability to negotiate the conditions and circumstances of sexual relations is central to their sexual and reproductive health, including mitigating HIV risk. In Africa, gender-based power imbalances constrain women's ... -
Health Equity, Cancer, and Social Determinants of Health
(Elsevier Ltd., 2018)Two facts on non-communicable diseases claim attention: they are global in distribution and, increasingly, show marked social inequalities—the lower the social position, ... -
Value-added indicators for a fairer Chilean school accountability system: a pending subject
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)Although schools’ relative contribution to pupils’ progress is increasingly used in accountability systems around the world, momentum for value-added models (VAM) has not been reached in Chile. This small-scale study ... -
Maintaining respect: Men, Masculinities and Domestic Violence Against Women: Insights from Informal Sector Workers in Tanzania
(Inderscience Enterprises Ltd., 2018)Informal sector employment is growing in Tanzania. As men compete to earn money and increasing number of women enter into paid work to supplement household incomes, additional tensions within the family emerge including ... -
Towards an Interdisciplinary Approach to Wellbeing: Life Histories and Self-Determination Theory in Rural Zambia
(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)What are the prospects for a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary and methodologically plural approach to wellbeing? This question is addressed using Self-Determination Theory (SDT), a psychological theory based on quantitative ... -
How Civil Society Organisations Changed the Regulation of Clinical Trials in India
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)In 2005 India changed its pharmaceutical and innovation policy that facilitated a dramatic increase in international clinical trials involving study sites in India. This policy shift was surrounded by controversies; civil ... -
Bangladesh Farmers Push for Temporary Flooding to Correct Dutch Polder Failure
(John Wiley & Sons, 2020)Controlling floods and raising rice production in Bangladesh have been the centres of struggle for nearly a century—between North and South, and between engineering solutions and local knowledge. Decades of disastrous ... -
Climate Change and Declining Levels of Green Structures: Life in Informal Settlements of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
(Published by Elsevier B.V., 2018)Impacts of climate change are often acute for those who live in informal settlements, the places where poverty,inequality and deprivation are concentrated in cities across the developing world. To broaden the strategies ... -
The Aftermath of Eviction in the Nigerian Informal Economy
(Liverpool University Press, 2019)This article examines the mechanisms through which street traders claim and maintain access to urban space in the aftermath of eviction – a phenomenon that affects poor urban workers across the global South. Whilst much ... -
Prosperity for All: Enhancing the Informal Economy Through Participatory Slum Upgrading
(United Nations Human Settlements Programme, 2019)Estimates suggest that a billion people live in slums and informal settlements today, representing about 30 per cent of the world’s urban population. In parallel, in many cities of Africa, Asia and Latin America the informal ... -
The Role of Inequality in Poverty Measurement
(University of Oxford, 2019)The adjusted headcount ratio, or MPI, is widely used by countries and international organizations to track multidimensional poverty and coordinate policy. Several characteristics have encouraged its rapid diffusion: ... -
Agricultural Production Amid Conflict: Separating the Effects of Conflict into Shocks and Uncertainty
(Elsevier Ltd, 2019)This paper examines the effect of conflict on agricultural production of small farmers. First, an inter-temporal model of agricultural production is developed in which the impact of conflict is transmitted through violent ... -
Developing a Forward-looking Agenda and Methodologies for Research of Self-use of Medical Abortion
(Elsevier Inc., 2018)In December 2016, following the “Africa Regional Conference on Abortion: From Research to Policy,” a group of 20 global abortion researchers, representing nine different international organizations and universities, convened ... -
Trajectories of Women's Abortion-related Care: A Conceptual Framework
(Elsevier Ltd., 2018)We present a new conceptual framework for studying trajectories to obtaining abortion-related care. It assembles for the first time all of the known factors influencing a trajectory and encourages readers to consider the ... -
Measuring lnequality in the Middle East 1990-2016: The World's Most Unequal Region?
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2018)In this paper we combine household surveys, national accounts, income tax data and wealth data in order to estimate income concentration in the Middle East for the period 1990–2016. According to our benchmark series, the ... -
Feminist Legal Geographies
(Sage Journals, 2019)Since the 1980s, legal geographical research as a trans-disciplinary project has drawn attention to the binding connections between law and space. Legal geography can be defined as a stream of scholarship that makes the ... -
Top Wealth Shares in the UK Over More Than a Century
(Elsevier, 2018)Recent research highlighted controversy about the evolution of concentration of personal wealth. In this paper we provide new evidence about the long-run evolution of top wealth shares for the United Kingdom. The new series ... -
Immigrants' Wage Growth and Selective Out-Migration
(Oxford University and John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)This paper examines immigrant wage growth taking selective out‐migration into account using administrative data from the Netherlands. Addressing a limitation in the previous literature, we address the potential endogeneity ... -
International Migration as a Driver of Political and Social Change: Evidence from Morocco
(John Wiley and Sons, 2019)This paper focuses on the impact of international migration on the transfer of political and social norms. Exploiting recent and unique data on Morocco, this paper explores whether households with return and current migrants ... -
Exploring the Equity Impact of a Maternal and Newborn Health Intervention: A Qualitative Study of Participatory Women's Groups in Rural South Asia and Africa
(BMC Springer Nature, 2019)A consensus is developing on interventions to improve newborn survival, but little is known about how to reduce socioeconomic inequalities in newborn mortality in low- and middle-income countries. Participatory learning ...