OpenDocs at Institute of Development Studies: Recent submissions
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Farming Within a Dual Legal Land System: An Argument for Emancipatory Food Systems Planning in Accra, Ghana
(Elsevier, 2020-03)Contestation over land is a central element of urban food systems. This paper examines how Ghana’s dual legal land system affects urban farmers. Situated within the “emancipatory planning” discourse, the paper investigates ... -
Integrated Approaches to Refugee Management in Uganda
(IDS, 2020-01-24)Uganda has been a global leader in implementing an integrated approach to refugee management in which refugees enjoy essentially the same rights and access to jobs and services as locals. This approach has benefited both ... -
Addressing the Challenges of Taxation of the Digital Economy: Lessons for African Countries
(IDS, 2020-01-27)The rapid growth of the digital economy in many African countries has led to concerns about whether their tax regimes are equipped to deal with this new phenomenon. The shift from a traditional bricks and mortar commercial ... -
Fuel Subsidy Reform and the Social Contract in Nigeria: a Micro-economic Analysis
(IDS, 2020-01-24)Fuel subsidies in Nigeria are enormous. At last estimate, the state subsidises petrol to the tune of US$3.9 billion – almost double the entire health budget. Such subsidies come at great cost: the opportunity costs of such ... -
Modelling Improvements to Property Tax Collection: The Case of Addis Ababa
(IDS, 2020-01-24)Efforts to reform property tax systems in African cities tend to focus more on how to value properties for purposes of tax assessment than on how to better collect taxes due. The same is true of the literature on property ... -
Fossils Fuels and Job Creation in Africa
(IDS, 2019-11-15)Fossil fuel development, including oil, gas and coal, can provide or support employment in a number of different ways1. Estimates for Africa’s extractive sector as a whole put it as employing less than 1% of Africa’s ... -
Lessons learned from Linking Social Protection to Tax Revenue
(IDS, 2019-12-11)Social protection and taxation have emerged as two of the key policy instruments available to governments in the pursuit of the Financing for Development (FFD) goals and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). There is a ... -
Illicit Financial Flows in North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia)
(IDS, 2019-06-25)This review provides a summary of the evidence on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) in North Africa (Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia). Large estimates of the value of IFFs have raised awareness of the issue on the ... -
Social Science and Behavioural Data Compilation (#5), Ebola Outbreak Eastern DRC, September-November 2019, SSHAP
(SSHAP, 2020-01-14)This rapid compilation of data analyses provides a ‘stock-take’ of social science and behavioural data related to the on-going outbreak of Ebola in North Kivu, South Kivu and Ituri provinces. Based on data gathered and ... -
Political Ecology and Differential Vulnerabilities to Droughts among Livestock Farmers in South Africa: A Case Study of Mpakeni Community
(ESRC STEPS Centre, 2020-01-10)Most of South Africa’s black rural population reside in the former homelands or Bantustans, commonly referred to as communal areas by the post-apartheid government (Clark and Luwaya 2017). Amongst a variety of livelihood ... -
Small Business Owners and Corporate Tax Responsibility in Nigeria: An Exploratory Study
(IDS, 2020-01-13)This study explores how small business owners talk about their tax responsibility, especially in non-enabling institutional contexts. It identifies two main types of tax responsibility discourses amongst these business ... -
Developing Disability-Inclusive Higher Education Systems
(DUZ Academic Publishers, 2020-01-01)It has been 25 years since the first issue of International Higher Education was published. By coincidence, it is also 25 years since the Salamanca Statement called on the international community to endorse the approach ... -
A New Policy Narrative for Pastoralism? Pastoralists as Reliability Professionals and Pastoralist Systems as Infrastructure
(ESRC STEPS Centre, 2020-01-01)This paper proposes that pastoralist systems are better treated, in aggregate, as a global critical infrastructure. The policy and management implications that follow are significant and differ importantly from current ... -
Skills Topic Guide: Health and Education Advice and Resource Team (HEART)
(Health & Education Advice & Resource Team (HEART), 2016)This topic guide is focused on skills immediately necessary for employment and increased productivity. It focuses on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) skills, which are concerned with the acquisition ... -
Are Women Not ‘Working’? Interactions between Childcare and Women’s Economic Engagement
(IDS, 2020-01-10)This paper seeks to examine how childcare impacts upon women’s economic engagement in India, Nepal, Tanzania, and Rwanda. In delineating the linkages between childcare, paid work, and other tasks that women carry out within ... -
How Higher Education Research Using the Capability Approach Illuminates Possibilities for the Transformation of Individuals and Society in South Africa
(African Minds, 2018)The capability approach offers a normative framework for thinking how higher education can support human well-being and fulfilment. This chapter explores how higher education research using the capability approach illuminates ... -
Capability-promoting Policies: Enhancing Individual and Social Development
(Policy Press and Bristol University Press, 2017-11-08)How can unjust societies be overcome with a better distribution of opportunities to flourish? How can human development be revitalised in countries where social welfare is being questioned? In short, how can human development ... -
Sub-Saharan African Experience of Conducting National Health Equity Assessments
(IDS, 2019-12-05)The World Health Organization (WHO)'s Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) has called for ‘health equity impact assessments' of all economic agreements, market regulation, and public policies, and for related ... -
Aid and Non-state Armed Groups
(IDS, 2019-12-23)This rapid literature review collates lessons related to aid (conditionality) and non-state armed groups (NSAGs). This is a companion paper to Herbert (2019) which looks more broadly at lessons from the use of aid ... -
Lessons From the Use of Aid Conditionality in Peace Processes
(IDS, 2019-12-17)This rapid literature review collates lessons from the literature on peace conditionality. This is a companion paper to Herbert (2019)1 which looks more specifically at lessons related to aid (conditionality) and non-state ...
