OpenDocs at Institute of Development Studies: Recent submissions
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Conditionality and Other Approaches to Secure Women’s Rights Provisions in Peace Processes
(IDS, 2019-11-28)This rapid literature review found no examples of the use of aid conditionality specifically to ensure inclusion of women’s rights provisions in peace process outcomes, but did identify other effective approaches, notably ... -
The State and Accessible Justice in Africa: is Ghana Unique?
(Overseas Development Institute, 2011-11)The provision of legitimate and accessible justice for its citizens is one of the fundamental duties of a well-governed state. But throughout Africa the institutions of state justice are struggling to overcome problems of ... -
Water for Food Security, Nutrition and Social Justice
(Routledge, 2019-09-19)This book is the first comprehensive effort to bring together Water, Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) in a way that goes beyond the traditional focus on irrigated agriculture. Apart from looking at the role of water and ... -
Alternative Dispute Resolution and the Magistrate’s Courts in Ghana: A Case of Practical Hybridity
(Overseas Development Institute, 2012-07)In our previous Working Paper (Crook et al., 2010) we argued that, contrary to current stereotypes of state justice in Africa, state courts and paralegal institutions in Ghana are providing forms of civil dispute resolution ... -
Popular Concepts of Justice and Fairness in Ghana: Testing the Legitimacy of New or Hybrid Forms of State Justice
(Overseas Development Institute, 2010-10-14)The provision of effective, legitimate, and accessible justice through judicial institutions and more generally through the ‘rule of law’ is probably one of the most fundamental of all public goods expected from a well-governed ... -
The Rights to Water and Food. Exploring the Synergies
(Routledge, 2019-09-06)The human right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation (HRSDWS) was recognized in 2010 by the United Nations General Assembly. It entitles everyone, without discrimination, to access to sufficient, safe, acceptable, ... -
Promoting Inclusive Growth and Better Trade Relations with Indonesia
(IDS, 2019-03-08)This rapid review synthesises the literature from academic, policy, and knowledge institution sources on the political economy of Indonesia, concerning recent inclusive growth efforts in Indonesia. It can be concluded that ... -
Introduction: the Accountability Politics of Reducing Health Inequalities: Learning from Brazil and Mozambique
(CEBRAP, 2019)Inequality is a key political issue of our times. It has political consequences, fuelling conflict and raising legitimacy chal‑ lenges for regimes around the world, in democratic and non‑demo‑ cratic settings alike. At the ... -
'This Changes Everything'?: Rethinking Fragility and Violent Conflicts from the Climate Crisis Perspective
(Cordula Reimann and Danny Burns, 2019-12)With reports of Arctic fires (e.g. Cockburn 2019) in the summer of 2019 and extreme heat waves and droughts in South Asia and Europe and flooding in the USA becoming more frequent and intense, and weekly worldwide climate ... -
Impact of Labour Migration to the Construction Sector on Poverty: Evidence from India
(RMMRU, 2014)Seasonal and circular migration is an important livelihood strategy for workers in developing countries and the construction industry is one of the largest recipients of such labour. The impact of labour migration to this ... -
Internal Migrant Construction Workers in Nepal: Tackling Exploitative Labour Practices to Enhance Migration’s Impact on Poverty Reduction
(RMMRU, 2014)Migration for construction work to urban areas has increased rapidly in Nepal since 1990 mainly due to rapid urbanization accompanied by growth in housing and physical infrastructures. This has ... -
Internal Migrant Workers and the ConstructionSector in Bangladesh: Tackling informalityand exploitative labour practices
(RMMRU, 2014)According to new research conducted by the Migrating out of Poverty Research Programme Consortium,internal migrant construction workers in Bangladesh face unduly harsh conditions of work. This ... -
The Costs and Benefits of Domestic Work as a Livelihood Strategy
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2014-06)Domestic work remains one of the key occupations for many female migrants in Southeast Asia. As a low-skilled, low-wage job with often inadequate legal protection, domestic work is an occupation that has the potential to ... -
Ensuring Decent Work in Singapore's Domestic Work Industry
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2013-12)It is widely acknowledged that foreign domestic workers play an increasingly significant role in plugging social reproductive gaps in the areas of housework, childcare, and eldercare amongst many ... -
Enhancing the Welfare of Migrant-Sending Households in Zimbabwe
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2019-09)Zimbabwe is experiencing ongoing migration from rural areas to destinations both within and outside the country. International destinations include South Africa and Botswana, as well as Europe and the Americas. It is ... -
Migration, Brokerage, Precarity and Agency
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2019-08)Globally, brokerage is widespread in migrant labour markets. Brokers fill the gap between migrants and the countries or places they are travelling to, and help migrants traverse complex immigration systems, border controls ... -
The State, Brokers and Migration in Ethiopia: Can Criminalisation of Brokers Mitigate Irregular Migration?
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2019-08)This Policy Brief outlines how the Ethiopian government approaches irregular migration from the country in a context of growing international pressure to control such migration. Challenging socioeconomic and political ... -
Le trafic de migrants en Casamance au Senegal
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2019-08)Au milieu des années 2000, les ressortissants sénégalais représentaient la plus grande proportion de migrants clandestins interceptés en Méditerranée. Ces migrants clandestins, qui risquaient leur vie dans des bateaux ... -
Migrant Smuggling in the Casamance Area of Senegal
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2019-08)As routes and migrant profiles have diversified, so have the infrastructures of migration mediation. This research provides an up-to-date account of the structure and functioning of the Senegalese migration industry: the ... -
Changing Patterns of Migration and Remittances in Rural Ghana
(Migrating out of Poverty, 2019-08)While migration is an important livelihood strategy adopted by individuals and households to improve living standards, there are contesting views on its effects on the welfare of the migrant households in migrant sending ...
