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IDS Working Paper;547
Do big cities enable or hinder women’s electoral participation? What are the determinants of women’s participation in big cities and how are they different from those in rural areas? We use the Election Commission of Pakistan’s novel gender-disaggregated constituency level data set for the...
11 February 2021
Understanding and addressing exclusion in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic This session is designed to meet the needs of health and social development advisers and those from the wider health network and from other cadres with an interest in health, equity and...
3 February 2021
The emergence of medium-scale farms is having important consequences for agricultural commercialisation across Africa. This article examines the role of medium-scale A2 farms allocated following Zimbabwe's land reform after 2000. While the existing literature focuses on changing farm size...
3 February 2021
IDS Working Paper 546
In this paper, we explore the use of a governance diaries methodology to investigate poor households’ interactions with authority in fragile, conflict and violence-affected settings in Mozambique.
2 February 2021