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The Role of the EIB in the Green Transformation
(Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), 2021-04-26)This paper will first examine (in section II) the context in which the European Investment Bank, (EIB) needs to operate, given the major challenges of the European Green transformation, and in the framework ... -
National and Multilateral Development Banks During the 2020 Pandemic: The Role of IADB and CDC During the First Phase of Covid-19
(Municipal Services Project (Kingston), UNCTAD (Geneva) and Eurodad (Brussels), 2020)This chapter focuses on the strategic role played over the first few months after the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic by a Multilateral Development Bank – the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) and a National ... -
Matching Risks with Instruments in Development Banks
(Agence française de développement (AFD), 2020-10)This paper explores how development banks should deploy appropriate financial instruments to encourage real economic risk-taking while minimizing financial engineering risks. We distinguish real economic risks from financial ... -
Pathways to Stronger Futures? The Role of Social Protection in Reducing Psychological Risk Factors for Child Development in Haiti
(Elsevier Ltd, 2021-06)It is widely recognised that poverty undermines early childhood development (ECD). In turn, poor childhood development reinforces the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Social protection could break this negative ... -
Of Zinc Roofs and Mango Trees: Tractors, the State and Agrarian Dualism in Mozambique
(Taylor and Francis, 2021-03-11)This paper reviews the latest mechanisation programme by the Mozambican government, asking how it is politically driven and how it shapes and is shaped by agrarian structures. Old ideas about agrarian dualism are reproduced ... -
How Villagers in Central Sierra Leone Understand Infection Risks Under Threat of Covid-19
(PLoSONE, 2020-06-24)Concern has been expressed over how well Africa is prepared to cope with the pandemic of Covid-19. Will rural populations with low levels of education know how to apply community-based infection control? We undertook ... -
COVID-19, Public Authority and Enforcement
(Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2021-10-07)The securitization of health is not a new phenomenon. However, global responses to the 2014–2016 Ebola outbreak in West Africa reveal the extent to which epidemic preparedness and response is now shaped by geopolitical ... -
Crise post-électorale en Côte d’Ivoire et logique de la non-violence en milieu urbain: une illustration à partir des villes de Gagnoa, Guiglo et San Pedro en 2010–11
(Taylor and Francis, 2020-02-27)Les auteurs cherchent à comprendre pourquoi certaines villes clés dans un sens stratégique, symbolique et historique (les villes de Gagnoa, Guiglo et San Pedro) n’ont pas connu de cycle de violence pendant et après la crise ... -
Beyond the Prepositions: Using Power Analysis to Inform Strategies for Social Action
(Taylor and Francis, 2020-12-11)This article reviews longstanding debates about the relationship between power over and power to - often posed as the tension between domination and emancipation. It then turns to several frameworks which integrate these ... -
Beyond the ‘Balance of Nature’: Pastoralists’ Alternative Perspectives on Sustainability
(White Horse Press, 2021-03-01)David Attenborough’s mission to restore the balance of nature in the documentary, A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement, is at once inspiring and concerning. What if the balance of nature doesn’t exist? What if this ... -
Channeling Contraband: How States Shape International Smuggling Routes
(Taylor & Francis Group, LLC, 2021-03-12)Although smuggling is commonly assumed to happen in remote and difficult-to-access borderlands, in reality, smuggling is most prevalent in areas that states tightly control, including at formal border crossings. To understand ... -
Regenerative Agriculture: An Agronomic Perspective
(Sage Journals, 2021-03-02)Agriculture is in crisis. Soil health is collapsing. Biodiversity faces the sixth mass extinction. Crop yields are plateauing. Against this crisis narrative swells a clarion call for Regenerative Agriculture. But what is ... -
The Resurgence of Agricultural Mechanisation in Ethiopia: Rhetoric or Real Commitment?
(Taylor and Francis Online, 2021-01-31)Ethiopia’s agricultural development strategies bypassed smallholder mechanisation for decades. Mechanisation returned to the policy agenda in 2013 but recent pro-mechanisation rhetoric lacks operational commitments. Based ... -
Researching the Politics of Illegal Activities
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-01)Researching illegal activities, while an object of increasing interest, generates a range of methodological challenges for political scientists. Rather than an exhaustive discussion, this article provides a simple framework ... -
Rethinking Disease Preparedness: Incertitude and the Politics of Knowledge
(Taylor and Francis, 2021-02-24)This paper argues for a rethinking of disease preparedness that puts incertitude and the politics of knowledge at the centre. Through examining the experiences of Ebola, Nipah, cholera and COVID-19 across multiple ... -
Breaking Out of the Policy Enclave Approach to Child Labour in sub-Saharan African Agriculture
(Sage Journals, 2021-02-17)This article is framed by the tension between a substantial universalising framework of global instruments on workers’ rights and child labour on one hand, and their outsourced implementation through the social policy ... -
Service Delivery Transformation for UHC in Asia and the Pacific
(Taylor and Francis, 2019)This article was drafted as part of a review of strategiesfor making progress toward universal health coverage in the coun-tries of Asia and the Pacific. It focuses on strengthening thedelivery of services, in the context ... -
Next Steps Towards Universal Health Coverage Call for Global Leadership
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2019)Universal health coverage (UHC) has been identified as a priority for international development by the G20, the World Health Organization, and the United Nations General Assembly. Since it was explicitly incorporated into ... -
Getting the Message Right on Nature‐based Solutions to Climate Change
(John Wiley & Sons, 2021-02-01)Nature‐based solutions (NbS) - solutions to societal challenges that involve working with nature - have recently gained popularity as an integrated approach that can address climate change and biodiversity loss, while ... -
Medium-scale Commercial Agriculture in Zimbabwe: the Experience of A2 Resettlement Farms
(Cambridge University Press, 2021-02-03)The emergence of medium-scale farms is having important consequences for agricultural commercialisation across Africa. This article examines the role of medium-scale A2 farms allocated following Zimbabwe's land reform after ...
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