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Human Security of Urban Migrant Populations Affected by Length of Residence and Environmental Hazards
(SAGE Publishing, 2020-12)It is widely suggested that migration is a key mechanism linking climate change to violent conflict, particularly through migration increasing the risks of conflict in urban destinations. Yet climate change also creates ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Know your Neighbor: The Impact of Social Context on Fairness Behavior
(PLOS, 2018)Laboratory experiments offer an opportunity to isolate human behaviors with a level of precision that is often difficult to obtain using other (survey-based) methods. Yet, experimental tasks are often stripped of any social ... -
Groundwater and Welfare: A Conceptual Framework Applied to Coastal Kenya
(Elsevier B.V., 2020)The links between groundwater and welfare are highly contested, unclear and confounded by political, environmental and economic factors. The lack of understanding of these links has wider implication on policies and ... -
Modelling Welfare Transitions to Prioritise Sustainable Development Interventions in Coastal Kenya
(MDPI, Basel, Switzerland, 2020)Welfare transitions are weakly understood in sub-Saharan Africa due to limited panel data to analyze trajectories of household escaping from, falling into, or remaining out of deprivation. We model data from 3500 households ... -
Rethinking the Economics of Rural Water in Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2020)Rural Africa lags behind global progress to provide safe drinking water to everyone. Decades of effort and billions of dollars of investment have yielded modest gains, with high but avoidable health and economic costs borne ... -
Rainfall and Groundwater Use in Rural Kenya
(Elsevier B.V., 2019)This study examines the relationship between rainfall and groundwater use in rural Kenya, using automatically-transmitted hourly data from handpumps (n = 266), daily rainfall records (n = 19), and household survey data ... -
Global Water Policy and Local Payment Choices in Rural Africa
(Springer Nature, 2019)Sub-Saharan Africa is least likely to meet the Sustainable Development Goal for safely-managed drinking water. Africa is estimated to require at least three times more annual investment, as a share of the gross regional ... -
Water Science, Policy, and Management - A Global Challenge
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)Universal delivery of improved drinking water services in rural Africa and Asia has been an enduring policy challenge for decades. Whilst drinking water coverage has generally improved, only one in five countries below 95% ... -
Risk Factors Associated With Rural Water Supply Failure: A 30-year Retrospective Study of Handpumps on the South Coast of Kenya
(Elsevier B.V., 2018)An improved understanding of failure risks for water supplies in rural sub-Saharan Africa will be critical to achieving the global goal of safe water for all by 2030. In the absence of longitudinal biophysical and operational ... -
Characterisation of Biomass Resources in Nepal and Assessment of Potential for Increased Charcoal Production
(Elsevier B.V., 2018)Characterisation of 27 types of biomass was performed together with an assessment of regional resource availability. Charcoal was produced under two conditions from all samples and their yields were compared. Sugarcane ...