OpenDocs at Institute of Development Studies: Recent submissions
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Anti-Gender Discourse in Serbian Media
(Center for Women's Studies in Belgrade, 2023-11-08)This paper seeks to lay out a critical feminist analysis of anti-gender discourse in 843 media texts published in Serbia from January 1, 2019 to October 31, 2022. A database with the largest coverage of mainstream news was ... -
Protest Matters: The Effects of Protests on Economic Redistribution
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-11)Can citizen-led protests lead to meaningful economic redistribution and nudge governments to increase their efforts to redistribute fiscal resources? We study the effects of protests on fiscal redistribution using ... -
Rural Sanitation in a Changing Climate: Reflections and Case Studies
(The Sanitation Learning Hub, Institute of Development Studies, 2023-12)To date, rural sanitation and hygiene are often conspicuously left out of discussions on climate change impacts on water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) services. There are few studies that illustrate the impacts of climate ... -
Implementation Obstacles and Political Appeal of Environmental Taxes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Reflections from Selected Countries
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-11-29)Increasing the slow pace of adoption of environmental taxes across low-income countries has become a significant priority among international financial institutions, multilateral development banks, and international donors. ... -
Introduction: Enacting Peace Amid Violence: Nonviolent Civilian Agency in Violent Conflict
(Brill, 2023-09-29)Worldwide, civilians experiencing violence make agential choices about how they interact with conflict landscapes. This special issue assembles contributions that specifically deepen our understanding of nonviolent civilian ... -
Presumptive Taxation and Equity: Evidence from the Ethiopian Informal Sector
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-11)Presumptive tax has become a popular way of taxing businesses operating in the informal sector across middle- and low-income countries. However, evidence on the unintended effects of presumptive tax systems is scant and ... -
Covid Collective Key Issue Guide: Social Protection and Different Forms of Social Assistance
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023)The Covid-19 pandemic led to widespread disruption of livelihoods and loss of income and exposed and reinforced existing inequalities (Rohwerder 2020). In response, almost all countries implemented some form of social ... -
Covid Collective Key Issue Guide: Pandemic Preparedness
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023)It is likely the next pandemic will come within a decade, so preparedness is of vital importance. Much has been learned from the Covid-19 pandemic and from this the world can limit pandemic risks and learn to respond ... -
Covid Collective Key Issue Guide: Managing Multiple, Intersecting Crises
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023)The world is facing the prospect of more frequent complex, uncertain, and harmful compound shocks, which are happening simultaneously or in rapid succession (Martinez-Diaz and Sidner 2021). Crises can come in many forms. ... -
Covid Collective Key Issue Guide: Informality and the Covid-19 Pandemic
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023)People living in poor and densely populated informal settlements struggled due to a lack of space, water, resources, and services, and were reliant on informal work which was severely affected by Covid-19 containment ... -
Patriarchal (Dis)orders: Backlash as Crisis Management
(The University of Chicago, 2023-11-20)Amid a rising tide of misogyny and gender violence across the world, terms like “patriarchal backlash” have increased in use to describe similar trends in different settings. Yet, backlash remains contested as a concept, ... -
Covid Collective Key Issue Guide: Impacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Decision-Making, Accountability and Empowerment
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023)The unpredictable, fast-moving and high-risk decision-making environment during the Covid-19 pandemic challenged policymakers around the globe. The shortcomings of global and national collective action and ... -
Using Machine Learning to Create a Property Tax Roll: Evidence from the City of Kananga, D.R. Congo
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-11)Developing countries often lack the financial resources to provide public goods. Property taxation has been identified as a promising source of local revenue, because it is relatively efficient, captures growth in real ... -
অনিশ্চয়তা, এলাকাভিত্তিক বৈষম্য, এবং অপর্যাপ্ত সাহায্য: কোভিড-১৯ পরবর্তী বাংলাদেশের শহরে বসবাসরত দরিদ্রদের অভিজ্ঞতা
(BRAC Institute of Governance & Development, 2023)The COVID-19 pandemic led to a significant increase in poverty in Bangladesh, particularly in urban areas. Rising food prices and high inflation rates further compounded the existing socioeconomic uncertainty. Social ... -
Information Preparedness and Community Engagement for El Niño in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-11-23)El Niño can be viewed as a multi-hazard event, and considerations for information needs cut across different populations and risks, including direct weather-related hazards, reduced agricultural production, greater food ... -
Covid Collective Key Issue Guide: Equity, Inclusion and Exclusion of Those Most Effected by the Pandemic
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023)The Covid-19 pandemic exposed and worsened already existing inequalities, increased extreme poverty and food insecurity, led to human rights violations, and negatively affected progress towards the achievement ... -
Covid Collective Key Issue Guide: Data, Knowledge and Information
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023)Co-production [of knowledge] is a sharing of power, with stakeholders and researchers working together to develop the agenda, design and implement the research, and interpret, disseminate, and implement the ... -
The Feedback State: Listening and Responding to Bangladesh’s Citizens During the COVID-19 Pandemic
(Manusher Jonno Foundation, 2023-08-30)The report examines the effectiveness of the Bangladesh government’s response to citizens during the COVID-19 pandemic and the mechanisms of feedback. The study focuses on the country’s ongoing health, social, and economic ... -
Precarity, Area-Based Discrimination, and Limited Support: Experiences of Urban Poverty After COVID-19 in Bangladesh
(BRAC Institute of Governance & Development, 2023)The COVID-19 pandemic led to a significant increase in poverty in Bangladesh, particularly in urban areas. Rising food prices and high inflation rates further compounded the existing socioeconomic uncertainty. Social ... -
Zambia Poverty Dynamics Research
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-11)The policy agenda proposed here builds on good measures already taken by the Government of Zambia in education, social protection, debt relief and macroeconomic management, and addresses the challenges that remain in ...
