Publications

Reading Pack: Humanitarian Action – 2nd Edition

The purpose of humanitarian action is to support people affected by armed conflicts and disasters by helping them to save their lives, alleviate their suffering, maintain their dignity, assist their recovery and increase their resilience. This reading pack from the Knowledge for Development and...

Brigitte Rohwerder & 2 others

The Role of Social and Humanitarian Assistance for Supporting Lives and Livelihoods During the 2021‒22 Tigray Crisis

BASIC Research Working Paper 33

This paper draws on a bespoke household panel dataset collected in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, just before and after the recent Tigray conflict reached the study area.

Rachel Sabates-Wheeler & 3 others

Simplified Taxation in Africa: What We Know – and Need to Know

ICTD Policy Brief 15

Most economic operators in Africa are small and informal firms that fall under the purview of presumptive or simplified tax regimes (STRs). These taxes are expected to fulfil a range of functions, from raising revenue to facilitating formalisation and improving revenue authorities’ data, and...

Max Gallien & 5 others

Taxing High-net-worth Individuals in Nigeria: Challenges and Opportunities for Policy-makers from a Preliminary Investigation

Nigeria ranks third in Africa for the number of US dollar millionaires, but whether these high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) are contributing their fair share to domestic revenue mobilization is open to question. Although there have been various attempts to improve tax collection in recent...

Giovanni Occhiali & 2 others

Measuring the Business Case for Workforce Nutrition Programmes

Workforce Nutrition Programmes (WNPs) can improve the health of workers, but with mixed results for a business case—which is crucial to their sustainability. This paper thus explores impact pathways and metrics used to assess the business benefits of WNPs, as well as the factors that influence...

Evert-jan Quak & 4 others

Environmental Change: Development Challenges Revisited

IDS Bulletin 56.1A

The establishment of the IDS Environment Group in 1990 created a line of research linked to policy that has remained central to the Institute ever since. In highlighting a series of IDS Bulletin issues, led by IDS researchers, this archive issue tracks the development of this work over the...

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