Recent Submissions

  • Pandemic Preparedness 

    Hrynick, Tabitha; Grant, Catherine (Institute of Development Studies, 2023-05-17)
    This rapid literature review aims to provide initial insights into emerging lessons on pandemic preparedness in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. It pays special attention to research generated by the Covid Collective ...
  • Impact of Vietnam’s Covid-19 Response on Vulnerable Groups 

    Do, Thao Ngoc; Chiang, Mina; Kasper, Eric; Chen, Sharlene (Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03-24)
    Our research shows how Vietnam’s Covid-19 policy response has influenced Vietnamese migrant workers and counter-trafficking work, particularly in border areas. Vietnam is a major labour exporter and is in the top ten ...
  • The Impact of Myanmar’s Response to Covid-19 on the Most Vulnerable 

    Chiang, Mina; Chen, Sharlene; Htun, Su Yin; Kasper, Eric (Institute of Development Studies, 2022-03-22)
    The Covid-19 pandemic has caused significant disruption globally. Measures to stop the spread of the virus have been necessary, but their knock-on effects have disproportionately affected the most vulnerable. This briefing ...
  • Building the Resilience of the Poor through Graduation in the Post-COVID-19 Global Context 

    BRAC UPGI (BRAC UPGI, 2020-09)
    The health shocks brought on by the spread of COVID-19, coupled with the economic crisis wrought by global lockdown measures, have had an immediate and severe impact on the state of extreme poverty. The scale of the crisis ...
  • Is the World Bank’s COVID Crisis Lending Big Enough, Fast Enough? New Evidence on Loan Disbursements 

    Duggan, Julian; Morris, Scott; Sandefur, Justin; Yang, George (Center for Global Development, 2020-10-12)
    The World Bank has forecast an unprecedented global recession in 2020-21, and the reversal of a decades-long fall in global poverty, provoking an acute need for short-term financing in low- and lower-middle income countries. ...
  • The Right to Protection of Forcibly Displaced Persons During the Covid-19 Pandemic 

    Rohwerder, Brigitte (Institute of Development Studies, 2021-08-06)
    The unprecedented shutdown of borders and restrictions on migration in response to the Covid-19 pandemic have put the core principles of refugee protection to test and resulted in the erosion of the right to asylum and ...