Working Paper

The Price of Simplicity: Skewed and Regressive Taxation in Accra’s Informal Sector

ICTD Working Paper 195

The paper finds that the majority of informal sector operators of a 2,700 sample of informal enterprises in the Accra metropolitan area pay a range of taxes and fees, which together amount to a significant burden, especially for low earners.

Report

Accountability and Citizen–State Relations in Bangladesh: Findings from the CLEAR Programme

CLEAR Synthesis Report 4

This report synthesises findings on accountability and citizen–state relations in Bangladesh from the Covid-19 Learning, Evidence and Research Programme in Bangladesh (CLEAR).

Publication

My Environment, My Work

Bangladesh Action Research Group 10

The Child Labour: Action-Research-Innovation in South and South-Eastern Asia (CLARISSA) programme uses Action Research (AR) to understand the dynamics which drive the worst forms of child labour (WFCL), and to generate participatory innovations which help to shift these underlying dynamics and...

Brief

Roundtable Report: Discussion on mpox in DRC and Social Science Considerations for Operational Response

SSHAP Briefing

This roundtable report presents a synthesised version of the roundtable discussion on the mpox (formerly known as monkeypox) outbreak which has been spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) since early 2023.