Publications

The Politics of Social Assistance in Lebanon: Social Protection, Sectarianism, and Lebanon’s Fragmented Social Contract

BASIC Research Working Paper 32

This working paper explores the contemporary politics of social assistance in Lebanon.

Philip Proudfoot

Sami Zoughaib

The Politics of Social Assistance in Lebanon

BASIC Research Policy Briefing 5

This brief examines the politics of social protection amid ongoing financial crisis in Lebanon.

Philip Proudfoot

Sami Zoughaib

Taxing the Wealthy in Lower-Income Countries: Why It’s Important, and How to Do It

ICTD Policy Brief 14

The world is experiencing multiple crises, including increasing global tension, skyrocketing debt levels, and climate change. Lower-income countries (LICs) are bearing the brunt of these crises. Their finances, both from domestic sources and international aid, are not growing sufficiently to...

Giovanni Occhiali & 3 others

Water Resource Management in Jordan: An Annotated Bibliography

This K4DD Rapid Bibliography reviews academic and grey literature to provide an overview of Jordan’s water resources, issues which inform inequalities and inequity in water access, principal water resource management strategies, and transboundary water resources and issues influencing regional...

Kathryn Cheeseman

Bangladesh Initiative to Enhance Nutrition Security and Governance (BIeNGS) Final Evaluation Report

The BIeNGS programme was ultimately designed to lead to improved nutrition status of children and mothers in the two Bangladeshi districts of Jamalpur and Sherpur. This report summarises the endline findings from the evaluation of the BIeNGS programme. This comprised of a mixed methods design...

Nicholas Nisbett & 7 others

Scenarios for Negotiating a UN Framework Convention on International Tax

ICTD Working Paper 218

If they stick to a firm position on procedures and on topics of discussion, much of the framework’s output will initially mainly be ‘by the global South for the global South’, with little participation from the global North.

Frederik Heitmüller

How can relational, decolonial and feminist approaches inform the EU bioeconomy?

In this commentary we argue that, to transform the bioeconomy sectors towards ecologically less harmful and socially fairer outcomes, the bioeconomy policy project must be questioned, re-politicised and fundamentally reframed and reinvented We firstly identify some of the main root causes for...

Lyla Mehta & 3 others

South-South Peer Exchange Knowledge Platforms: Good Practice and Learning from Existing Models

This K4DD Rapid Evidence Review collates shared learning and good practices around peer knowledge exchange platforms, with a focus on South-South peer-to-peer learning. However, given the breadth of peer learning activities, the importance of context and the lack of standardisation in terms and...

Roz Price

Agronomy and (in)equity: Lead, engage or ignore?

This article explores the implications for development-oriented agronomy of the growing interest in (in)equity as part of the story of food system transformation. We argue that while agronomy is not in a position to lead on addressing (in)equity among farmers, to say nothing of within the food...

James Sumberg

The Interpersonal Side of Tax Compliance: Interactions Between Taxpayers and Tax Officials in Rwanda

The literature on tax administration and compliance in developing countries has been blooming recently, primarily driven by the availability of administrative data and by the increased urgency of revenue mobilisation in the context of multiple global crises. Yet, one key aspect of tax...

Giulia Mascagni & 4 others

The Sustainability of Tunisia’s Water Resources

This K4DD rapid bibliography elaborates on four dimensions of Tunisia’s water sector. The first and second sections deal with sustainable water use and equality of access in Tunisia, outlining how certain sectors and government policies affect water supply and access. In the third section,...

Mahdi Zaidan

What Does a Good Digital Welfare State Look Like?

IDS Policy Briefing 217

The introduction of ‘digital-by-default’ welfare and social protection systems in the UK and beyond has delivered efficiencies and cost savings for governments and can be convenient for recipients. But, given the rapid pace of change, we need to understand the ethical, social, and political...

Becky Faith

Kevin Hernandez