Publications

Publication

Surveillance Law in Africa: a Review of Six Countries

This review provides the first comparative analysis of African legal surveillance frameworks.

Report

IDS Annual Review 2020-21

This has been an extraordinary year for the Institute. The Covid-19 pandemic and its health, social, economic and political impacts have created massive disruptions, transforming how people live and organisations function throughout the world. The challenges it has brought to how we at...

Working Paper

An Exploration of the Association Between Fuel Subsidies and Fuel Riots

IDS Working Paper 556

Between 2005 and 2018, 41 countries had at least one riot directly associated with popular demand for fuel. We make use of a new international data set on fuel riots to explore the effects of fuel prices and price regimes on fuel riots.

Publication

The journey to achieving fair water footprints for climate resilient, inclusive, and sustainable development

The global water crisis is exacerbated by climate change and poorer quality water – along with less of it – are two major impacts. We must adapt our use and approaches to this finite resource and meet global goals. Yet action on water adaptation, which we have also seen in COVID-19 recovery,...

Working Paper

The Tax Side of the Pandemic: Compliance Shifts and Funding for Recovery in Rwanda

ICTD Working Paper 129

While much knowledge is being generated on the impact of the pandemic, we still know very little on its implications on taxation in low-income countries. Yet, tax is crucial to fund crisis response and recovery, in addition to broader development plans and expanded government expenditure. This...

Journal Article

Firm’s Compliance Behaviour Towards Food Fortification Regulations: Evidence from Oil and Salt Producers in Bangladesh

Food Policy

Impact of national food fortification programs is contingent on the extent to which there is compliance with national standards. However, this compliance is often sub-optimal and is not consistently measured. One of the challenges to more regular measurement is an over-reliance on quantitative...

Working Paper

Politics, Power and Social Differentiation in African Agricultural Value Chains: The Effects of COVID-19

APRA Working Paper;69

Since the structural adjustment policies of the 1980s, policymaking at a national and continental level has increasingly turned to agricultural commercialisation as the foundation for Africa’s long-term nutrition and food security. However, socio-economic inequalities, land tenure and food...

Working Paper

Rethinking Formalisation: A Conceptual Critique and Research Agenda

ICTD Working Paper 127

The concept of ‘formalisation’ has been ubiquitous in development discourse and policymaking in the early twenty-first century. It has underpinned policy interventions and proposals from tax registration to property titling, and a range of measures intended to connect informal entities with...

Working Paper

Can Tax Agents Support Tax Compliance in Low-Income Countries? A Review of the Literature and some Preliminary Evidence from Uganda

ICTD Working Paper 128

Since the late 1970s, many countries have based their tax systems on self-assessment – taxpayers are expected to evaluate their liabilities autonomously, and voluntarily remit their tax due. If the tax system is perceived as fair and easy to navigate, with credible threat of penalisation for...

Journal Article

Effectiveness of Cash-plus Programmes on Early Childhood Outcomes Compared to Cash Transfers Alone: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis in Low- and Middle-income Countries

To strengthen the impact of cash transfers, these interventions have begun to be packaged as cash-plus programmes, combining cash with additional transfers, interventions, or services. The intervention’s complementary (“plus”) components aim to improve cash transfer effectiveness by...

Publication

Lessons learnt from humanitarian negotiations with the Taliban, 1996-2001

K4D Helpdesk Report

This rapid literature review finds that humanitarian actors responded in a variety of ways to Taliban actions limiting principled aid in the country during the period of their rule (1996-2001). The report is focused on the findings around humanitarian negotiation and the strategy of...

Brief

Student Wellbeing in Contexts of Protracted Violent Conflict

IDS Policy Briefing 184

In contexts of protracted violent conflict, school environments play a key role in children’s psychological, social, and emotional wellbeing. Research by the REALISE education project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) provides a better understanding of how violent conflict...