OpenDocs at Institute of Development Studies: Recent submissions
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Business Owners’ Perspectives on Running Khaja Ghars, Massage Parlours, Dance Bars, Hostess Bars, and Dohoris in Kathmandu, Nepal
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-08)The Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA) programme aims to understand the dynamics that are central to running a business in the informal economy of Nepal’s adult entertainment ... -
Are Trade Rules Undermining Taxation of the Digital Economy in Africa?
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02)African countries are currently considering provisions in the AfCFTA and at the WTO to liberalise digital trade. As they face mounting fiscal pressures, it is imperative that they beware the implications of digital ... -
The State of Learning in Bangladesh: A Pilot Study
(BRAC, 2022-06)COVID-19 has disrupted the education of millions of primary and secondary school students. It is assumed that students will have sustained a learning loss as a result of extended disengagement from studies. Now that classes ... -
Comparison of the Immune Responses to COVID-19 Vaccines in Bangladeshi Population
(Vaccines (Basel), 2022-09)The adaptive immune response is a crucial component of the protective immunity against SARS-CoV-2, generated after infection or vaccination. Methods: We studied antibody titers, neutralizing antibodies and cellular immune ... -
Fiscal Measures to Support Post-Pandemic Resilience
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-02-05)Now that the dust has begun to settle on the Covid-19 pandemic, it is time to reflect on and draw lessons from country experiences in pandemic response, in relation to fiscal management and reform. In order to apply these ... -
Disentangling Government Responses: How Do We Know When Accountability Work Is Gaining Traction?
(Accountability Research Center (ARC), 2024-01)Advocacy for public accountability aims to produce certain reactions from government officials or service providers. However, the reactions can be many and diverse, and it is not always clear to advocates how to interpret ... -
Real Exchange Rate and Export Surge Episodes: What Sectors Take Advantage of the Real Exchange Rate Stimulus?
(Elsevier, 2024-03)What are the main characteristics of sectors that take advantage of the real exchange rate stimulus after a large and long-lasting devaluation? We aim to answer this question by analyzing the development of export sectors ... -
Global Land Deals: What Has Been Done, What Has Changed and What's Next?
(Land Deal Politics Initiative, 2024-01)In 2010, the Land Deals Politics Initiative formed to study the rising number of large-scale land deals taking place around the world. As the so-called ‘global land grab’ took shape, we organised small grant competitions ... -
E-tax System Adoption and Tax Compliance in Ethiopia: Large and Medium Taxpayers' Experience
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-01)In the last decade, tax administrations in developing countries have been introducing technological innovations such as e-filing and e-payment platforms. The main aim of introducing these technologies is to improve tax ... -
Resolving Tax Disputes: Market Vendors and Councils in Malawi
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-01)In local markets in Malawi, there are frequent tensions between market traders and the local councils who are responsible for the markets. This sometimes results in the traders refusing to pay market taxes. That in turn ... -
Finding the Missing Stone: Mobile Money and the Quality of Tax Policy and Administration
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-01)Making tax administration more efficient and maximising voluntary compliance is a very difficult task for developing countries. In this paper, we analyse the effect of mobile money payments on the quality of tax policy and ... -
Measurement and Mirage: The Informal Sector Revisited
(Institute of Development Studies, 2024-01-29)Recent years have seen an increasing availability and usage of measurements of informal sectors as the basis of scholarship and policy advice on the causes and consequences of informality. This has created an impression ... -
Dispositions Towards the Living Wage Proposition: Baseline Report of the Rainforest Alliance Living Wage Strategy Evaluation
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-01-26)This paper reflects on the changes induced by modifications in the Rainforest Alliance certification system that require wage transparency from plantation owners, a comparison with the local living wage benchmark, and a ... -
The Importance of Assets for Coping with Covid-19 and Other Shocks
(Science Direct, 2024)Rural households in Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala and Mexico experienced a series of shocks beginning in 2020, including the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment, loss of income, an abrupt increase in food prices, hurricanes, ... -
Integrated Knowledge Translation for Non-Communicable Diseases: Stories from Sub-Saharan Africa
(Ubiquity Press, 2023-12-08)Integrated Knowledge Translation (IKT) is a key strategy for contextualising, tailoring, and communicating research for policy and practice. In this viewpoint, we provide examples of how partners from five countries in ... -
Heterogeneous Market Participation Channels and Household Welfare
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-12-01)This paper uses panel data and qualitative interviews from southwestern Ghana to analyse farmers’ heterogeneous oil palm marketing decisions and the effect on household welfare. We show that despite the supposed benefits ... -
Community Solutions to Insecurity Along the Uganda–Kenya Border
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-12-19)In the Karamoja and Turkana border regions of Uganda and Kenya, there is widespread violence including armed robbery, rape, and human rights abuses, yet community complaints about failures of governance remain largely ... -
Disability, Religion, and Gender: Exploring Experiences of Exclusion in India Through an Intersectional Lens
(Cogitatio Press, 2023-12-05)Despite the existence of national and international laws and conventions to avoid discrimination in India, exclusion due to an intersection of disability, gender, and religious identity continues, resulting in marginalisation ... -
Digital Tax Policy and Tax Revenue Collection in Cameroon
(Institute of Development Studies, 2023-12)Cameroon adopted a digital tax policy some eight years ago. Before full implementation of the digital tax policy in 2016, councils in Cameroon, especially local councils, reported many challenges due to delays and ... -
Evolving Meanings of ‘Principles’ in Agronomic Discourse
(Sage, 2023-11-09)The notion of principles, and the sense that they are different from but closely linked to practices, is deeply rooted in the agronomy literature. However, these terms are currently used by different authors to mean very ...
