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An Assessment of the Impact of COVID-19 Responses on MSMEs in the Informal Sector: Evidence from Commonwealth Countries in the Pacific
(Commonwealth Secretariat, 2020-09-21)The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led to severe economic disruption, with the informal sector in Pacific Commonwealth countries being particularly vulnerable. This report summarises current policy responses and ... -
The Double Logic of Internal Purges: New Evidence from Francoist Spain
(Taylor and Francis, 2020)States often engage in internal purges to eliminate political dissidents within their own ranks. However, partly because of the absence of reliable data, we know little about the logic and dynamics of these purges, ... -
COVID-19 in LMICs: The Need to Place Stigma Front and Centre to its Response
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020)COVID-19 has caused unprecedented health, economic and societal impacts across the world, including many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The pandemic and its fallout have laid bare deep-seated social and economic ... -
An Assessment of the Impact of COVID-19 Responses on MSMEs in the Informal Sector: Evidence from Commonwealth Countries in the Caribbean
(Commonwealth Secretariat, 2020-09-15)The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led to severe economic disruption, with the large informal sector in Caribbean Commonwealth countries being particularly vulnerable. This report summarises current policy responses ... -
An Assessment of the Impact of COVID-19 Responses on MSMEs in the Informal Sector: Evidence from Commonwealth Countries in Africa
(Commonwealth Secretariat, 2020-09-10)The coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has led to severe economic disruption, with the informal sector, employing nearly 86 per cent of Africans, being particularly vulnerable. This report summarises current policy responses ... -
COVID-19 as a Global Challenge: Towards an Inclusive and Sustainable Future
(Elsevier, Ltd., 2020-07-20)COVID-19 is a global challenge that demands researchers, policy makers, and governments address multiple dimensions which go far beyond the implications of this pandemic for health ... -
Exploring Critical Issues in the Ethical Involvement of Children with Disabilities in Evidence Generation and Use
(UNICEF Office Of Research – Innocenti, 2020-07)This working paper explores the main ethical challenges, and corresponding mitigation strategies, in relation to involving children with disabilities in evidence generation. Children with disabilities are defined as ... -
Using Mobile-phone Technology to Change Behaviour: Lessons from mNutrition
(UNSCN, 2020-07)This article presents key lessons learned from a rigorous mixed-method evaluation of mNutrition, a global mobile phone-based advisory service that promotes behavioural change around key nutrition and farming practices to ... -
The Urban Land Nexus–Challenges and Opportunities of Regularising Informal Settlements: The Case Studies of Dar es Salaam and Mwanza in Tanzania
(University of Cape Town, 2020-05-19)Informal settlements in Tanzania accommodate more than 70% of the urban population. Owing to this, the Tanzanian government has undertaken several initiatives to address the growing size and number of informal settlements. ... -
Divergent Understandings of Agroecology in the Era of the African Green Revolution
(Sage Journals, 2020-06-12)Agroecology is increasingly recognized within mainstream development. Yet, this is controversial, due to disagreement over what it does and should mean. This article takes a ‘knowledge politics’ approach to show how different ... -
Conservation as a Social Contract in a Violent Frontier: The Case of (Anti-) Poaching in Garamba National Park, Eastern DR Congo
(Elsevier, 2020-04)Protected areas located in areas of violent conflict are often conceived as spaces where the state has lost its control and parks are ‘dissolved’, to the point where poaching and violent extraction of resources run free. ... -
Children's work in African agriculture: Time for a rethink
(Outlook on Agrigulture, 2020-06-10)This article outlines a tension that plays itself out in rural areas throughout Africa. On the one hand, it is recognized that children throughout the world engage in economic activity, and this is particularly so in rural ... -
Food Politics and Development
(Elsevier, 2020-06-17)Food has become both a pivotal topic in development and a lens through which to integrate and address a range of contemporary global challenges. This review article addresses in particular the interrelationship between ... -
Nationalism, Legitimacy and Hegemony in Transboundary Water Interactions
(Water Alternatives, 2020)This article examines how discourses of water nationalism are used to justify and legitimise a state’s water policy both domestically and internationally and how that discourse constitutes a battleground of ideas and power ... -
Informal Land Investments and Wealth Accumulation in the Context of Regularization: Case studies from Dar es Salaam and Mwanza
(Sage Journals, 2020-01-29)Between half and three-quarters of new housing development in African cities has been taking place on land acquired through informal channels. This paper offers insights from a study of self-builders’ investments in informal ... -
A Common Sense Approach to the Right to Food
(Oxford University Press, 2019-01-09)Despite growing activism around the right to food in the past decade, there has been little exploration of how people understand the right and its implications. This article analyses original research that explored how ... -
Process Tracing the Policy Impact of ‘Indicators’
(Springer Nature, 2019-11-14)In recent years, a range of new indices, benchmarking and scorecard tools—also known as ‘indicators’—have been developed to influence public policy and to pro- mote accountability. While subjected to important technical ... -
Tanzania's Story of Change in Nutrition: Political Commitment, Innovation and Shrinking Political Space
(Elsevier B.V., 2020-01-09)In the past 15 years, Tanzania has made considerable progress in the fight against child undernutrition. This paper analyses in what respects an enabling environment for nutrition action in Tanzania has emerged. It critically ... -
China's Role in Africa's Energy Transition: a Critical Review of its Intensity, Institutions, and Impacts
(Elsevier, 2020-10)China is playing an ever important role in Africa's energy transition, mainly via its massive investment and loans on various energy infrastructure projects ranging from extractive activities in oil and gas industries, ... -
Contested Public Authority in Marginal Urban Areas: Challenges for Humanitarians
(Forced Migration Review, 2020-02)In urban contexts where multiple governance actors compete for authority, a clearer approach is needed on whether and how to engage these various actors in order to reach the most vulnerable host and refugee populations.