Africa’s Lockdown Dilemma: High Poverty and Low Trust
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, sub-Saharan African countries faced the dilemma of how to minimise viral transmission without...
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As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, sub-Saharan African countries faced the dilemma of how to minimise viral transmission without...
Published by: Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis affecting everyone. Yet, its challenges and countermeasures vary significantly over time and...
Gender differences (GD) in mental health have come under renewed scrutiny during the COVID-19 pandemic. While rapidly emerging evidence...
Published by: UNU-WIDER
Does secessionism lead to social polarisation? Despite much research on independence movements, their relationship to polarisation, a...
Published by: UNU-WIDER
This paper investigates the long-term impact of economic shocks on populism, by exploiting a natural experiment created by the trade...
Published by: UNU-WIDER
This paper studies how household-level receipts of cash transfers affect political attitudes in Pakistan. The paper exploits the locally...
As part of the our Trust and Governance programme, IDS has partnered up with a team of international researchers from the ISDC,...
Published by: UNU-WIDER
The global spread of COVID-19 is one of the largest threats to people and governments since the Second World War. The on-going pandemic...
Published by: UNU-WIDER
This paper explores the relationship between household exposure to riots and social capital in urban India using a panel dataset...
Published by: UNU-WIDER
The primary policy response to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in high-income countries has been to lock down large sections of the...