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How to Make ‘Cash Plus’ Work: Linking Cash Transfers to Services and Sectors
Published by: UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti
The broad-ranging benefits of cash transfers are now widely recognized. However, the evidence base highlights that they often fall short in achieving longer-term and second-order impacts related to nutrition, learning outcomes and morbidity.
How Do State–Business Relations Shape Sustainable Development?
Published by: IDS
The achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals will depend on the ways in which states and businesses engage with one another. While state–business interactions can take many forms, they inherently involve processes of negotiation through which actors in both camps pursue their own interests.
ICTD Partnerships with African Revenue Authorities: Collaborating for Impactful Research
Published by: IDS/DFID
This brief summarises the research projects conducted by the ICTD in partnership with each of the three revenue authorities and concludes with a set of principles for productive partnerships between researchers and practitioners in government agencies.
State–Business Relations Beyond Growth: Bringing in Development
Published by: IDS
The signatories of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have called on a wide range of businesses ‘to apply their creativity and innovation’ to address sustainable development challenges. Yet the role of business in contributing to development depends profoundly on its interaction with the state. This paper asks how states and businesses interact in different contexts to shape development outcomes.
Engaging Research with Policy and Practice
Published by: Institute of Development Studies and The Impact Initiative
How can research evidence influence policy and practice? This Learning Guide seeks to draw out some of the key lessons from on successful approaches and impact lessons on effective use of research evidence to engage policy and practice.
The Evolution of Collective Land Tenure Regimes in Pastoralist Societies: Lessons from Andean Countries
Published by: IDS
Much has been said about the importance of pastoralist livelihoods for the effective and sustainable use of drylands around the world. Yet, pastoralist societies are experiencing more pressures to their way of life than ever before.
Report on the ODEPLAN/IDS Roundtable: La Via Chilena
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
At the invitation of the Chilean Government, IDS, in cooperation with the Chilean National Planning office
(ODEPLAN) organised a round...
Two Cheers for CCTs
In the rush to meet Millennium Development Goal (MDG) commitments to halve extreme poverty by 2015, ‘conditional cash transfers’...
Counting the Cost of Privatised Provision: Women, Rights and Neoliberal Health Reforms in Chile
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Under neoliberalism citizens in Chile and beyond have seen a reshaping of social service delivery, particularly in the health...