OpenDocs at Institute of Development Studies: Recent submissions
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Inclusion of Marginalised Groups in Sensitive Programming in Pakistan
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-04-14)This rapid review focuses on the different variations of discrimination against marginalized groups, with a focus on the effect of intersecting and overlapping inequalities and the different experiences and outcomes they ... -
Using New Data to Support Tax Treaty Negotiation
(World Bank, 2021-07-13)This paper introduces the new Tax Treaties Explorer dataset, developed with support from the World Bank and the G-24, and illustrates its use for research by tax treaty negotiators, policy makers, and researchers. -
Epic Narratives of the Green Revolution in Brazil, China, and India
(Spinger, 2021-06-24)The Green Revolution is often seen as epitomising the dawn of scientific and technological advancement and modernity in the agricultural sector across developing countries, a process that unfolded from the 1940s through ... -
Designing a Participatory Programme at Scale: Phases 1 and 2 of the CLARISSA Programme on Worst Forms of Child Labour
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-07-08)CLARISSA (Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia) is a large-scale Participatory Action Research programme which aims to identify, evidence, and promote effective multi-stakeholder action ... -
Perception of Taxpayers and Tax Administrators Towards Value Added Withholding Tax in Zimbabwe
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-07)Value added tax is a key tax for generating revenue in Zimbabwe and all African states, and for financing the budget in African countries. VAT revenue has an essential role in budgetary policymaking. Every year revenue ... -
The Contested Shaping of International Tax Rules: The Growth of Services and the Revival of Fractional Apportionment
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-07)The digitalisation of the economy has spotlighted fundamental flaws in international tax rules, which have been exacerbated since the 1970s with the wider shift to the services economy and the growth of international ... -
There and Back Again: The Making of Uganda’s Mobile Money Tax
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-07)This paper evaluates the appropriateness of the tax policymaking process that led to the introduction, and the later adaptation, of a tax on mobile money transactions in Uganda in 2018. We examine the unusual source of ... -
Humanitarian Evidence Summary No.16
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-06-29)This is the 16th monthly Humanitarian Evidence Summary (HUMES) to signpost FCDO and other UK government departments to the latest relevant evidence and discourse on humanitarian action to inform and support their response. ... -
Managing Seasonality in West African Informal Urban Vegetable Markets: The Role of Household Relations
(Wiley, 2021-06-15)Seasonality influences African informal agricultural markets, but existing literature inadequately explores its interactions with market actors' social relations and livelihood outcomes. Thus, agricultural commercialisation ... -
K4D’s Work on the Indirect Impacts of COVID-19 in Low- and Middle- Income Countries
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-06-30)This report is not an in-depth nor exhaustive analysis of the many indirect impacts of the pandemic on LMICs. The content is purely based on the requests from FCDO to the K4D services on this topic, and as such can only ... -
Interaction Between Food Prices and Political Instability
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-05-21)This report reviews the literature on links between international food prices and political instability (including protests, riots and social unrest). The literature on food prices and protests, riots, unrest, or violent ... -
Evidence and Lessons Learned Regarding the Effect of Equitable Quality Education on ‘Open Society’
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-05)The purpose of this review is to assist FCDO in understanding the evidence of impact and any valuable lessons regarding the effect equitable quality education can have on ‘open society’. The search revealed that there is ... -
Transition to Federal Health and Education Governance
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-06-28)This report looks at transition from central to federal responsibilities for health and education in Nepal and Indonesia. Federalism is a complex process and it was outside of the scope of this review to investigate the ... -
The Impact of Covid-19 on Livelihoods and Food Security
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-06-30)Studies of livelihoods and food systems since the start of the global pandemic in 2020 have shown a consistent pattern: the primary risks to food and livelihood security are at the household level. Covid-19 is having a ... -
The Plight of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Amidst COVID-19: A Post-lockdown Analysis Based on Business Climate Survey
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2021-03)The COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent containment measures have had devastating effects on Uganda’s businesses resulting in the economy’s general slowdown. Despite the macro-level impacts, evidence at a micro-level, ... -
Role of Faith and Belief in Environmental Engagement and Action in MENA Region
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-05-19)This helpdesk report provides a critical review of the literature on the role of faith and religious values in environmental engagement and action. Contemporary studies have examined the relationship between religion and ... -
Key Considerations: India's Deadly Second COVID-19 Wave: Addressing Impacts and Building Preparedness Against Future Waves
(SSHAP, 2021-06-25)Since February 2021, countless lives have been lost in India, which has compounded the social and economic devastation caused by the second wave of COVID-19. The sharp surge in cases across the country overwhelmed the ... -
Monitoring Sanitation Campaigns: Targets, Reporting and Realism
(Institute of Development Studies, 2021-06)Many governments in Asia and Africa have set ambitious target dates for their countries becoming open defecation free (ODF). Some have recently concluded national sanitation campaigns; a number of countries have campaigns ... -
Silent Cities, Silenced Histories: Subaltern Experiences of Everyday Urban Violence During COVID-19
(The British Academy, 2021-06-22)The public health containment measures in response to COVID-19 have precipitated a significant epistemic and ontological shift in ‘bottom-up’ and ‘action-oriented’ approaches in development studies research. ‘Lockdown’ ... -
Monitoring India’s National Sanitation Campaign (2014–2020)
(The Sanitation Learning Hub, Institute of Development Studies, 2021-06-22)In 2011, India had more phone users (around 54 per cent of households) and television access (33 per cent) in rural areas than people with access to tap water (31 per cent) and toilet facilities (31 per cent), according ...
