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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 ... -
Social Norms, Labour Intermediaries, and Trajectories of Minors in Kathmandu’s Adult Entertainment Industry
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-06-11)In Nepal, the adult entertainment sector (AES) is perceived as a high-risk environment for children where sexual exploitation is known to occur. The AES is made up of a diverse range of venues that includes restaurants, ... -
Transforming Knowledge, Transforming Lives
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-06-10)IDS’ research, learning and teaching seeks to understand and respond to these disruptions and shocks by working more ambitiously, collaboratively, politically and internationally than ever before. We are entering the decade ... -
Leaving No One Behind: An Individual-Level Approach to Measuring Multidimensional Poverty in Botswana
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-06-05)The ‘leave no one behind’ (LNOB) principle is at the core of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and acknowledges that poverty is multidimensional and is an individual concept. Notwithstanding this, most empirical ... -
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, ... -
Kenya Case Study: Investigating Potential for Kenya-China-UK Trilateral Cooperation: From Rhetoric to Practice in Development Cooperation
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-03-20)This document reports on a secondary research case study investigating potential avenues for trilateral cooperation between Kenya, China and the UK. The paper examines Kenya as a case to analyse how partnerships with the ... -
Sri Lanka Case Study: Investigating Potential for Sri Lanka-China-UK Trilateral Cooperation
(2020-03-20)In international development today, we see a surge of South-South cooperation, that is, the response ofcountries in the Global Southto the longstanding hegemony ofcountries in the Global North(Gray and Gills 2016). Trilateral ... -
Living Wage, Living Income, and Child Labour-Free Zones: Arguments and Implications for Children’s Work
(IDS, 2020-05-26)Of the 736 million people living in extreme poverty worldwide, about 80 per cent live in rural areas and depend on agriculture for survival. Many of these are smallholder farmers who receive a relatively small income for ... -
After Emergency: Social Protection Responses to Zika Virus in Brazil
(IDS, 2020-05-12)The Zika Congenital Syndrome has severe long-term, complex impacts on affected children and their caretakers, demanding state responses even after the withdrawal of the national health emergency status. This paper discusses ... -
Best Practices in Strengthening Evidence Use by Government in Education Policy and Beyond: A Rapid Research Scoping Review for the Queen Rania Foundation and the Jordanian Ministry of Education
(IDS, 2020-05-07)This is a rapid research scoping review, prepared by IDS for the Queen Rania Foundation and the Jordanian Ministry of Education. It responds to the following questions: (a) What are the intrinsic and extrinsic characteristics ... -
Overcoming Challenges in Ethiopia’s Nutrition Governance
(IDS, 2020-05)Reducing undernutrition is crucial for Ethiopia’s development. Ethiopia has implemented multi-sectoral nutrition programmes for over a decade, with some success. However, challenges remain in coordination and implementation ... -
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. -
Transforming Food Markets for Social Good
(IDS, 2020-04-29)Access to nutritious food is a human right, for which households increasingly rely on the functioning of markets. However, food markets and the value chains that supply them are in transition in many parts of the world. ... -
Making Finance Work for the Greater Good
(IDS, 2020-04-29)Finance is a key factor in economic growth and the pursuit of all other development objectives. Yet, financial markets have produced destructive crises and have contributed to rising inequality and unjust allocations of ... -
Governing Value Chains for Inclusive and Sustainable Development
(IDS, 2020-04-29)Value chains – a set of activities that conceptualise, produce and bring a product to consumers – have been an integral part of the global economic system for over 20 years. Despite their active participation in international ... -
Why State–Business Relations Matter for Sustainable Development
(IDS, 2020-04-29)The ways in which states and businesses engage and influence one another profoundly shapes the progress of nations towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Governments shape business activities through policies ... -
Independent Evaluation of UNHCR’s Emergency Response to the Rohingya Refugees Influx in Bangladesh August 2017– September 2018
(UNHCR, 2018-12)The evaluation of UNHCR’s response to the Rohingya refugee emergency in Bangladesh follows on from the declaration of the Level 3 (L3) emergency for Bangladesh, effective 19 September 2017. It is undertaken in line with ... -
Resource Warfare, Pacification and the Spectacle of ‘Green’ Development: Logics of Violence in Engineering Extraction in Southern Madagascar
(Elsevier, 2020-08)Bringing political ecology's concern with the critical politics of nature and resource violence into dialogue with key debates in political geography, critical security studies and research on the geographies and phenomenology ... -
Lessons Learned Brief for Ghana and Tanzania, External Evaluation of Mobile Phone Technology-Based Nutrition and Agriculture Advisory Services in Ghana and Tanzania (mNutrition)
(IDS, 2020)mNutrition was a five-year global initiative supported by the Department for International Development (DFID) between 2013 and 2018, organised by GSMA and implemented by in-country mobile network operators (MNOs) and other ... -
Understanding Children’s Harmful Work in African Agriculture: Points of Departure
(Institute of Development Studies, 2020-04)This paper steps back from dominant discourses around child labour, and examines how a reframing of children’s involvement in African agriculture, from child labour to children’s work, might enhance understanding of the ...