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Humanitarianism and Covid-19: Structural Dilemmas, Fault Lines, and New Perspectives

IDS Bulletin 53.2

The unprecedented threat posed by the Covid-19 pandemic has presented a crisis for the international humanitarian system. At a time when the number of people in need of assistance has drastically expanded, humanitarian funding has been cut as countries focus on their domestic economies....

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The Impacts of Covid-19 on the Worst Forms of Child Labour in Myanmar

In Myanmar, almost one in ten children are engaged in child labour and more than half of the working children are doing hazardous work. The Covid-19 pandemic and responses to it have far-reaching social and economic consequences for vulnerable populations, including children in the worst forms...

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Covid-19: Shaping the Nexus between State-Business Relations and Global Value Chains: The Case of Horticulture in Kenya

The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on global value chains has been topical of late, yet little work has been done to explore how interactions between value chain businesses and state actors, which we refer to as the state-business relations and global value chain nexus (SBR-GVC nexus), have...

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Female Entrepreneurship and the Creation of More and Better Jobs in sub-Saharan African Countries

MUVA Paper Series 2

The question that this paper tries to answer is how to do this through the means of female entrepreneurship programmes within the context of sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).