Publications

Towards a New Solution for Taxing Cross-border Services? Trade-offs in Designing UN Tax Convention Protocol 1

This brief analyses the institutional trade-offs facing negotiators of Protocol 1 on cross-border services in a digitalised and globalised economy under the proposed United Nations (UN) Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation. It examines design choices across legal form, nexus,...

Florian Dierich

A Global Review of Climate Change and Social Protection in Protracted Crisis Contexts

BASIC Research Working Paper 43

This Working Paper examines views on the integration of climate change into social protection, with specific reference to protracted crisis settings.

Carolina Holland-Szyp

Jan Selby

Succeeding in the Snakes and Ladders Game of Development in Mozambique: The Role of Collaborative Approaches

IDS Research Report 91

The existing wisdom on efforts to promote accountability highlights the importance of ‘thinking and working politically’ and moving from confrontational to collaborative approaches. This is particularly relevant given current trends, including closing civic space and the decline in...

The Social and Economic Impacts of Carbon Markets on Local Communities in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Realist Systematic Literature Review

This landmark publication presents a comprehensive realist systematic literature review examining carbon market participation on social and economic effects on local communities in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Carbon trading, particularly voluntary carbon markets, is gaining...

Evert-jan Quak

A Review of the Business Case for Workforce Nutrition Initiatives

Undernutrition and malnutrition remain persistent challenges in low-and middle?income countries (LMICs), especially among workers in labour-intensive sectors. Workplace nutrition programmes (WNPs) have shown promising health benefits, but evidence on their business impact remains...

Evert-jan Quak & 2 others

Supporting Mutual Aid in Sudan

BASIC Research Policy Briefing 7

This Policy Briefing sets out how donors and aid organisations can improve the quantity and quality of their support in Sudan.

Becky Carter

Hassan-Alattar Satti

Ideologically Motivated Sexual Grooming

Book

Across diverse societies, coercion often hides behind cultural norms, religious expectations, legal systems, and gendered power structures. This book exposes a disturbing but overlooked form of abuse: ideologically motivated sexual grooming – the manipulation of women and girls from religious...

Mariz Tadros & 10 others

Technical Note: Area-wide Programming for Safely Managed Sanitation

Exposure to human faeces is hazardous to human health. An estimated 564,000 children die from diarrhoeal diseases caused by unsafe sanitation annually. A lack of access to safe sanitation is also a major cause of cholera outbreaks, with almost all cases coming from countries with the lowest...

Jamie Myers

Bisi Agberemi, WASH Specialist at UNICEF

War and Peace in Ukraine and in Gaza: A Comparative Analysis

This book interrogates the wars in Ukraine and in Gaza and asks whether meaningful distinctions can be made between just and unjust wars. The author analyses the global roots of both wars, including unresolved clashes of contending imperialisms, rooted in different variants of capitalism....

Robin Luckham

Co-production and Transformative Change: Lessons and Challenges

This article takes the case of the TAPESTRY project to look at how transformative change can be co-produced between local communities, researchers, community-based organisations and other actors. We lay out the process, challenges and tensions of doing co-produced research with marginalised...

Lyla Mehta & 7 others

Humanitarian and Social Protection Approaches to Inclusion

BASIC Research Working Paper 16

This paper explores how and how far considerations of inclusion are found in the policy and programming space described as the ‘humanitarian-social protection nexus’.

Executive Summary: Rapid Scoping Review: Anti-Rollback Actors and Strategies

Rapid Scoping Review Report

This report presents the findings of a rapid scoping review of queer and feminist organisations and social movements countering roll back in 14 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, South Africa, and Türkiye)

Tessa Lewin & 3 others