IDS Research: Recent submissions
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Local Response in Health Emergencies: Key Considerations for Addressing the COVID-19 Pandemic in Informal Urban Settlements
(Sage Journals, 2020-05-05)This paper highlights the major challenges and considerations for addressing COVID-19 in informal settlements. It discusses what is known about vulnerabilities and how to support local protective action. There is ... -
Chronic Conditions and COVID-19 in Informal Urban Settlements: a Protracted Emergency
(Informa UK Limited, 2020-09-10)COVID-19 has forced a reckoning about how we live, and in particular how exposure to disease risks are unevenly distributed. This contribution explores connections between the COVID- 19pandemic, chronic disease and ... -
Making Trade Policy Inclusive
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-10-01)With the rise of global value chains where different stages of the production process are located across different countries, international trade flows became increasingly intricate, resulting in innumerable flows of goods, ... -
Lessons for Open Data for Development Programmes
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-10-22)Open data programmes – that support the access, distribution, and effective use of data by everyone for free – are a relatively new area in global development. As more initiatives emerge, there is a need for stronger ... -
Psychological Resilience, Fragility and the Health Workforce: Lessons on Pandemic Preparedness from Liberia and Sierra Leone
(2020-08-14)COVID-19 presents a time to redefine vulnerability; however, in discussions of vulnerability, the health workforce, particularly in regard to their psychosocial well-being, is often forgotten. Healthcare workers (HCWs) ... -
Pastoralists and Peasants: Perspectives on Agrarian Change
(Taylor and Francis, 2020-09-27)For many years, studies of peasants and pastoralists have run in parallel, creating mutual blind-spots. This article argues that, despite contrasting research traditions and conceptual framings, there are many commonalities. ... -
On the Political and Social Consequences of Economic Inequality: Civic Engagement in Colombia
(UNU-WIDER, 2019)This paper investigates the impact of inequality on individual civic engagement at the community level, whether this impact persists over time, and what mechanisms may shape the relationship between inequality and civic ... -
Winning or Buying Hearts and Minds? Cash Transfers and Political Attitudes in Pakistan
(UNU-WIDER, 2019)This paper studies how household-level receipts of cash transfers affect political attitudes in Pakistan. The paper exploits the locally exogenous eligibility cut-off of the flagship Benazir Income Support Programme to ... -
Riots and Social Capital in Urban India
(UNU-WIDER, 2020)This paper explores the relationship between household exposure to riots and social capital in urban India using a panel dataset collected by the authors in the state of Maharashtra. The analysis applies a random-effect ... -
Africa’s Lockdown Dilemma: High Poverty and Low Trust
(UNU-WIDER, 2020)The primary policy response to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in high-income countries has been to lock down large sections of the population. However, there is growing unease that blindly replicating these policies might ... -
Trust in the Time of Corona
(UNU-WIDER, 2020)The global spread of COVID-19 is one of the largest threats to people and governments since the Second World War. The on-going pandemic and its countermeasures have led to varying physical, psychological, and emotional ... -
Trade Liberalization and the Rise of Populism in Brazil
(UNU-WIDER, 2020)This paper investigates the long-term impact of economic shocks on populism, by exploiting a natural experiment created by the trade liberalization process implemented in Brazil between 1990 and 1995. This high impact and ... -
Using Social Audits to Improve Delivery of State Nutrition-related Services: Lessons from the CAN Program
(International Food Policy Research Institute, 2020)This short brief summarises the key findings from the IDS-led independent evaluation of the Collective Action for Nutrition (CAN) Social Audit programme in Odisha, India. The CAN programme was designed and implemented by ... -
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 ... -
External Evaluation of Mobile Phone Technology-based Nutrition and Agriculture Advisory Services in Africa Mobile Phones, Nutrition, and Health in Tanzania: Qualitative Follow-up Study Report
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-03-31)This endline report presents the findings of the third and final round of qualitative data collection conducted in March 2019. Data collection was carried out by OPM Tanzania, in close coordination with the IDS qualitative ... -
China and Humanitarian Aid Cooperation
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-10-05)China’s international humanitarian aid role is increasing. Widely welcomed by recipients, China’s aid is also criticised on motivational and technical grounds and surrounded by intensifying political scrutiny. There is an ... -
Food Systems and Building Back Better
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-30)Measures that have been put in place across the world to slow down the spread of coronavirus (Covid-19) have had profound effects on food and nutrition security for those furthest behind. In the short run, many have ... -
Governance and Building Back Better
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-09-30)The pandemic is in many ways a crisis of governance. Its magnitude and mitigation are determined by the nature of policy responses and crisis management by leaders and governments, and existing socioeconomic inequality has ...
