Impact Initiative: Recent submissions
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The Equity Impact of Community Women's Groups to Reduce Neonatal Mortality: A Meta-analysis of Four Cluster Randomized Trials
(Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association, 2019)Socioeconomic inequalities in neonatal mortality are substantial in many developing countries. Little is known about how to address this problem. Trials in Asia and Africa have shown strong impacts on neonatal mortality ... -
A Prediction Model for Neonatal Mortality in Low- and Middle-income Countries: An Analysis of Data from Population Surveillance Sites in India, Nepal and Bangladesh
(Oxford University Press on behalf of the International Epidemiological Association, 2019)Background: In poor settings, where many births and neonatal deaths occur at home, prediction models of neonatal mortality in the general population can aid public-health policy-making. No such models are available in the ... -
Impact on Birth Weight and Child Growth of Participatory Learning and Action Women's Groups with and without Transfers of Food or Cash during Pregnancy: Findings of the Low Birth Weight South Asia Cluster-randomised Controlled Trial (LBWSAT) in Nepal
(PLOS ONE, 2018)Background: Undernutrition during pregnancy leads to low birthweight, poor growth and inter-generational undernutrition. We did a non-blinded cluster-randomised controlled trial in the plains districts of Dhanusha and ... -
Socioeconomic Inequalities in Newborn Care During Facility and Home Deliveries: A Cross Sectional Analysis of Data from Demographic Surveillance Sites in Rural Bangladesh, India and Nepal
(BMC Springer Nature, 2018)Background: In Bangladesh, India and Nepal, neonatal outcomes of poor infants are considerably worse than those of better-off infants. Understanding how these inequalities vary by country and place of delivery (home or ... -
'Classes of Labour' at the Margins of Global Commodity Chains in India and China 'Classes of Labour' at the Margins of Global Commodity Chains
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018)This article deploys the concept of ‘classes of labour’ to map and compare non‐factory labour relations in the garment chain across Delhi and Shanghai metropolitan areas. It contributes to commodity studies by unpacking ... -
Rethinking Institutions: Innovation and institutional Change in India's Informal Economy
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)India has the largest informal, unregistered economy in the world, infrastructurally backward, yet vital for both growth and livelihoods. In the first section of this article, five economic institutions that shape this ... -
Regulate, Replicate, and Resist - the Conjunctural Geographies of Platform Urbanism
(Taylor & Francis, 2020)Platforms in the urban environment are fundamentally unaccountable. They present themselves as too big to control, too new to regulate, and too innovative to stifle, and remain un-democratic, and usually distant, organizations ... -
The Global Platform Economy: A New Offshoring Institution Enabling Emerging-Economy Microproviders
(SAGE, 2019)Global online platforms match firms with service providers around the world, in services ranging from software development to copywriting and graphic design. Unlike in traditional offshore outsourcing, service providers ... -
Good Gig, Bad Gig: Autonomy and Algorithmic Control in the Global Gig Economy
(SAGE, 2019)This article evaluates the job quality of work in the remote gig economy. Such work consists of the remote provision of a wide variety of digital services mediated by online labour platforms. Focusing on workers in Southeast ... -
Networked but Commodified: The (Dis)Embeddedness of Digital Labour in the Gig Economy
(SAGE, 2019)This article investigates the (dis)embeddedness of digital labour within the remote gig economy. We use interview and survey data to highlight how platform workers in Southeast Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa are normatively ... -
The Digital Knowledge Economy Index: Mapping Content Production
(Taylor & Francis, 2019)We propose the construction of a Digital Knowledge Economy Index, quantified by way of measuring content creation and participation through digital platforms, namely the code sharing platform GitHub, the crowdsourced ... -
Workers of the Internet Unite? Online Freelancer Organisation Among Remote Gig Economy Workers in Six Asian and African Countries
(Blackwell Publishing, Inc., 2018)This article presents findings regarding collective organisation among online freelancers in middle‐income countries. Drawing on research in Southeast Asia and Sub‐Saharan Africa, we find that the specific nature of the ... -
'You Can Give Even if You Only Have Ten Rupees!': Muslim charity in a Colombo housing scheme
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)Recent research on contemporary modalities of Islamic or Muslim philanthropy has focused on processes of subjectification through which givers and recipients of charity are habituated or craft themselves to an ethic of ... -
Ethical Living: Relinking Ethics and Consumption Through Care in Chile and Brazil
(Wiley, 2018)Mainstream conceptualizations of ‘ethical consumption’ equate the notion with conscious, individual, market‐mediated choices motivated by ethical or political aims that transcend ordinary concerns. Drawing on recent sociology ... -
Charity and Philanthropy in South Asia: An Introduction
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)There are no reliable figures to help us measure the volume of charitable donations in South Asia but, according to the 2014 World Giving Index, Sri Lanka is ranked ninth in the world for the charitable efforts of its ... -
A Cohort Study of the Effects of Older Adult Care Dependence Upon Household Economic Functioning, in Peru, Mexico and China
(PLOS, 2018)While links between disability and poverty are well established, there have been few longitudinal studies to clarify direction of causality, particularly among older adults in low and middle income countries. We aimed to ... -
Power Logics of Consumers' Gendered (in)Justices: Reading Reproductive Health Interventions Through the Transformative Gender Justice Framework
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)Global gender asymmetries in marketing and consumer behavior were recently exemplified by the Transformative Gender Justice Framework (TGJF). The TGJF, however, lacks an explicit reference to power – an aspect that becomes ... -
Traditional Leaders and the 2014-2015 Ebola Epidemic
(Cambridge University Press, 2020)We assess the role of traditional authorities during an acute health crisis, the 2014–15 Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone. We exploit plausible exogenous variation in the political competition for local chieftaincy positions ... -
Does Microcredit Increase Aspirational Hope? Evidence from a Group Lending Scheme in Sierra Leone
(Elsevier, 2020)Microcredit has received considerable attention due to its potential to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in particular through its effects on poverty alleviation, female empowerment and self-employment. ... -
Chief for a Day: Elite Capture and Management Performance in a Field Experiment in Sierra Leone
(INFORMS, 2018)We use a field experiment in Sierra Leone to examine how the identity of the manager influences rent seeking and performance in participatory development projects. Specifically, we vary the composition of a committee ...