Opinions

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Learning from crises: state-citizen relations in the time of cholera

Ian Scoones

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Promoting market-based sanitation: sharing the SHAWN project experience in Nigeria

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Should we cry over spilled milk? The case of Sardinia

Ian Scoones

Giulia Simula

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Inclusive sanitation: Opportunities for market shaping in West and Central Africa

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Uncertain Climate: New Short Film Explores Complex Uncertainty in India

Nathan Oxley

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The SME finance gap in Kenya: how are investors missing the ‘missing middle’?

Small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) are still struggling with the gap in funding between micro loans and larger commercial lending. Governments, NGOs and the private sector in Kenya are attempting to fund that gap but are still only catering for a small share of the market. To succeed they...

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Promoting dignity and countering shame through Universal Child Grants?

The global social protection community gathered in Geneva this week to discuss Universal Child Grants (UCGs) and its potential for reaching Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 1 on eradicating child poverty in all its forms. UCGs are cash transfers that are paid for all children under a certain...

Keetie Roelen

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Can transparency make extractive industries more accountable?

Over the last two decades great strides have been made in terms of holding extractive industries accountable.  As demonstrated at the Global Assembly of Publish What You Pay (PWYP), which I attended recently in Dakar, Senegal, more information than ever about revenue flows to governments from...

John Gaventa

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Impact of the 2014 Israeli military operation on domestic violence in Gaza

Humanitarian actors are aware of the risk of increased domestic violence and violence against women in contexts of crises. Indeed, we know that prolonged exposure to violent conflict adds to the daily stressors faced by individuals and risks triggering or aggravating violence within the family...

Jean-Pierre Tranchant

Cathérine Müller

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Why I chose to study Food and Development at Sussex and my journey so far

Wil Hopson is currently studying our master’s course in Food and Development. In this interview, he tells us how he came to be here at the University of Sussex and IDS*, what it’s like to study here and his hopes for the future. Why did you choose to do a master’s degree in food and...

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Mining farmers and farming miners: what opportunities for accumulation?

Ian Scoones

Opinion

Nigeria General Election 2019: Female candidate creates new vision of Nigeria

In Nigeria, party politics are characterised by a structure reliant on funding, male domination, and a tendency to violence. In eleven days' time Nigeria will elect its new president. What do the events leading up to it tell us about who will win? Just over a week ago, 55-year-old female...

Rebecca Webb