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Review of 'The End of Desertification? Disputing Environmental Change in the Drylands' by Roy H. Behnke and Michael Mortimore
(Springer, 2018-10)Tales of desertification across the world’s drylands are a recurrent theme in policy discourse. This book takes issue with many of the assumptions around desertification, with cases ranging from Central Asia to West Africa ... -
Understanding and Optimising the Social Impact of Venture Capital: Three Lessons from Ghana
(African Evaluation Journal, 2018-11-13)Background: Mobilising investment for sustainable development is a priority for many African governments and their international allies. There are many claims about the social impact of investments in small and growing ... -
Prescriber and Dispenser Perceptions About Antibiotic Use in Acute Uncomplicated Childhood Diarrhea and Upper Respiratory Tract Infection in New Delhi: Qualitative Study
(Wolters Kluwer - Medknow, 2017-11-01)OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to explore the prescribing practices, knowledge, and attitudes of primary care doctors and community pharmacists, regarding antibiotic use in acute upper respiratory tract infections ... -
Effectiveness of Strategies to Improve Health-Care Provider Practices in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries: a Systematic Review
(Elsevier Ltd., 2018-10-08)Inadequate health-care provider performance is a major challenge to the delivery of high-quality health care in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs). The Health Care Provider Performance Review (HCPPR) is a ... -
The Challenges of Institutionalizing Community-Level Social Accountability Mechanisms for Health and Nutrition: a Qualitative Study in Odisha, India
(BioMed Central Ltd, 2018)Background: India has been at the forefront of innovations around social accountability mechanisms in improving the delivery of public services, including health and nutrition. Yet little is known about how such initiatives ... -
Labour after Land Reform: The Precarious Livelihoods of Former Farmworkers in Zimbabwe
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018-09-26)What happens to labour when major redistributive land reform restructures a system of settler colonial agriculture? This article examines the livelihoods of former farmworkers on large‐scale commercial farms who still live ... -
Promoting Quality Use of Medicines in South-East Asia: Reports from Country Situational Analyses
(BMC Health Services Research, 2018)Irrational use of medicines is widespread in the South-East Asia Region (SEAR), where policy implementation to encourage quality use of medicines (QUM) is often low. The aim was to determine whether public-sector QUM is ... -
Antibiotic Use in South East Asia and Policies to Promote Appropriate Use: Reports from Country Situational Analyses
(2018 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd., 2018)Inappropriate use of antibiotics is rampant in South East Asia1-6 and is a major contributor to antimicrobial resistance.7-9 However, data on antibiotic use are scant, few effective interventions to improve appropriate ... -
Une Histoire Politique du Tonkpi dans l'Ouest Ivoirien. Marginalisation régionale et émergence de l'UDPCI
(Cairn.Info, 2017)The creation of a political party is generally associated with key personalities and/or a political ideology. Rarely, however, is its territorial rooting considered. This article examines the case of Tonkpi – the former ... -
Uncovering 'Community': Challenging an Elusive Concept in Development and Disaster Related Work
(Societies, 2018-08)In all areas of academic or practical work related to disaster risk, climate change and development more generally, community and its adjunct community-based have become the default terminology when referring to the local ... -
Norms, Networks, Power and Control: Understanding Informal Payments and Brokerage in Cross-Border Trade in Sierra Leone
(Journal of Borderlands Studies, 2018-08-25)Recent research has cast light on the variety of informal payments and practices that govern the day-to-day interactions between traders and customs agents at border posts in low-income countries. Building on this literature, ... -
Gendered Health Systems: Evidence from Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(BMC, 2018-06-12)Gender is often neglected in health systems, yet health systems are not gender neutral. Within health systems research, gender analysis seeks to understand how gender power relations create inequities in access to resources, ... -
Linking Smallholder Farmers to Markets on Extensive and Intensive Margins: Evidence from Nicaragua
(Elsevier Ltd., 2017-12)Access to modern commercialization channels is key for smallholder farmers to move away from subsistence farming and overcome poverty. However, achieving that goal is challenging for smallholders given their lack ... -
True Values
(Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), 2018-05-16)Where property markets are still developing, there is little sales data on which to base valuations. As a result, it is more difficult to assign accurate property valuations, there is greater scope for abuse, and these ... -
The Resource Nexus in an Uncertain World: a Non-Equilibrium Perspective
(Routledge, 2017-12)In recent years the concept of the resource "nexus" has been both hotly debated and widely adopted in research and policy circles. It is a powerful new way to understand and better govern the myriad complex relationships ... -
Political Settlements as a Violent Process: Deconstructing the Relationship Between Political Settlements and Intrinsic, Instrumental and Resultant Forms of Violence
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2017-06-15)This article explores the opportunities and conundrums of understanding violence at critical junctures following ruptures in political orders through the prism of political settlements. While there is an emerging body of ... -
Water Nationalism in Egypt: State-building, Nation-making and Nile Hydro-politics
(Routledge, 2018-05)The science of politics that characterizes IR-related hydropolitical theories might be too rigid to understand the various historical trajectories, diversity, and pathways of water-related interstate relations around the ... -
Introduction: Political Settlements, Rupture and Violence
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2017-06-15)This Special Issue of Conflict, Security & Development explores the relationship between political settlements and violence. While there is an emerging body of scholarship on political settlements, its relationship to ... -
Revenue-Maximising or Revenue-Sacrificing Government? Property Tax in Pakistan
(Routledge, 2016-05-12)The idea that states seek to maximise their revenue collection has occupied a significant place in contemporary political economy analysis of taxation, and has helped us understand the history of state formation. It is, ... -
Evidence to Action: Highlights From Transform Nutrition Research
(SAGE Journals, 2018-08-05)Background: The Transform Nutrition (Transform) research consortium (2012-2017), led by the International Food Policy Research Institute, sought to generate evidence to inform and inspire action to address undernutrition ...