OpenDocs at Institute of Development Studies: Recent submissions
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The New Politics of Global Tax Governance: Taking Stock a Decade After the Financial Crisis
(Taylor & Francis 2019, 2019-06-27)The financial crisis of 2007–2009 is now broadly recognised as a once-in-a-generation inflection point in the history of global economic governance. It has also prompted a reconsideration of established paradigms in ... -
Lessons of Working with Informal Security Actors
(IDS, 2019-06-11)Security sector reform (SSR) and Security and Justice (S&J) programmes have become a part of standard procedure for donors operating in fragile, failed and conflict-affected states. This rapid literature review sought to ... -
Cross-Border Dynamics and Healthcare in West Nile, Uganda
(UNICEF, IDS & Anthrologica, 2019-07)Against the backdrop of on-going preparedness work in Uganda as related to the outbreak of Ebola in DRC, this brief summarises key considerations concerning cross-border dynamics and health structures and behaviours in the ... -
Beyond Technical Fixes: Climate Solutions and the Great Derangement
(Taylor & Francis, 2019-07-01)Climate change research is at an impasse. The transformation of economies and everyday practices is more urgent, and yet appears ever more daunting as attempts at behaviour change, regulations, and global agreements confront ... -
Linking Social Rights to Active Citizenship for the Most Vulnerable: the Role of Rights and Accountability in the ‘Making’ and ‘Shaping’ of Social Protection
(The European Journal of Development Research, 2019-07-08)Social protection has the potential to provide a key interface between states and citizens. We consider how the institutional framing and design of social protection can be adapted from top-down forms of provision to forms ... -
How Clean is our Taxpayer Register? Data Management in the Uganda Revenue Authority
(IDS, 2019-07-12)Revenue administrations collect large amounts of data on individuals and firms in the course of their work. Increasingly, this data is digitised. The use of digital technologies has the potential to greatly improve the ... -
A Gender Approach to the Promotion of Productive Uses of Electricity
(IDS, 2019-07-10)Interventions promoting productive use of electricity (PUE) without gender approaches are more likely to benefit men than women. Men typically own more businesses and operate in a wider range of more productive, ... -
‘Good Governance’ as Conflict Resolution? Locally Mediated Governance and Mining Law at the Côte d’Ivoire Ity Gold Mine
(ESRC STEPS Centre, 2019)This paper examines the exploitation and management of gold mining in the western region of Côte d’Ivoire and the associated local social tensions and conflicts. Taking a historical sociological analysis, the paper shows ... -
Changing Farm Structure and Agricultural Commercialisation in Nigeria
(APRA, Future Agricultures Consortium, 2019-06-01)Evidence is mounting that the rise of medium-scale investor farms and associated changes in the distribution of farm sizes are occurring in many African countries. These changes in the distribution of farm sizes are creating ... -
Effectiveness of Aid for Trade Programmes Providing Market Information and Advice to Businesses
(IDS, 2019-06-25)Provisions of ‘market information’ and ‘advice to businesses’ by donors are components of the Aid for Trade (AfT) agenda. Accordingly, the literature usually addresses this area as part of the broader discussion on AfT ... -
Institutions for Trade: Translating Trade into Development Impact
(IDS, 2019-06-11)The African Development Bank publication ‘African Economic Outlook 2019’, urges policy makers to implement the WTO’s Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) to reduce the time it takes to cross borders and the transaction costs ... -
The Impact of Creating Backward and Forward Linkages Between Lead Firms and SMEs in Conflict settings
(IDS, 2019-05-05)This rapid review synthesises the literature from academic, policy, and knowledge institution sources on the effects of lead firm-SME linkages in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The review focuses, where the ... -
Rethinking Impact: Applying the Gender Lens
(Institute of Development Studies and The Impact Initiative, 2019-06)This booklet profiles the research and impact funded by the ESRC-DFID Strategic Partnership which explicitly focuses on gender inequality, but also projects where the gender dynamics emerged during the course of the work. ... -
Jordan’s Environmental Policies and Engagement on Climate Change
(IDS, 2019-06-10)This report provides an overview of Jordan’s environmental policies and engagement on climate change. As climate change is set to worsen an already difficult environmental, political, economic, and social situation in ... -
Overview of Research on Far Right Extremism in the Western Balkans
(IDS, 2019-06-04)Far-right extremism is widespread in the Western Balkans and exists in both mainstream political parties and extremist groups and individuals. Most of the literature focuses on Serbian nationalist groups, but far-right ... -
The International Community’s Role in the Climate and Environment Space in Jordan
(IDS, 2019-06-10)This review gives an overview of the current programmes and policies on climate change and environmental issues being supported by donors in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan (hereafter referred to as "Jordan"). The review ... -
'Empresas Recuperadas': Argentina's Recovered Factory Movement
(IDS, 2019-06)The ‘empresas recuperadas' or worker-recovered enterprise movement in Argentina emerged as a response to the country's sovereign debt crisis of 2001, with workers fighting for their right to run abandoned factories. Central ... -
W.L. Gore & Associates Inc.: Workplace Democracy in a Transnational Corporation
(IDS, 2019-06)W. L. Gore and Associates (Gore) is a privately-held multinational company founded in 1958. Since its founding, it has operated through a "lattice" system of employee self-management which is said to verge on true workplace ... -
Participatory Guarantee Systems in Tanzania: Locally Focused Quality Assurance Systems
(IDS, 2019-06)Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGSs) are alternative certification schemes for organic products, built on trust and social networks, and intended for local markets. In contrast to third party export-oriented certification ... -
National Street Vendor Association: Lobbying for a National Urban Street vendor Policy in India
(IDS, 2019-07)The National Street Vendor Association (NASVI) in India is an association of Indian street vendor organisations working to protect the rights of vendors across the country through sustainable macro-level policy interventions. ...
