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Fiscal Measures to Support Post-Pandemic Resilience
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Now that the dust has begun to settle on the Covid-19 pandemic, it is time to reflect on and draw lessons from country experiences in...
Measurement and Mirage: The Informal Sector Revisited
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Recent years have seen an increasing availability and usage of measurements of informal sectors as the basis of scholarship and policy advice on the causes and consequences of informality. This has created an impression of a consensus around a clearly conceptualised and operationalised object of study – that when we talk about the informal sector, we know what we are talking about.
Stories of Change: Covid-19 Responses for Equity
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Covid-19 Responses for Equity (CORE) was a three-year, CA$25m rapid research initiative that brought together 20 research projects to...
Mapping the Supply of Surveillance Technologies to Africa: Case Studies from Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco, Malawi, and Zambia
African governments are spending over 1US$bn per year on digital surveillance technologies which are being used without adequate legal...
African nations spending $1bn a year on harmful surveillance
Governments in Nigeria, Ghana, Morocco, Malawi, and Zambia are collectively spending at least $1bn a year on digital surveillance...
Mobile Money Taxation and Informal Workers: Evidence from Ghana’s E-Levy
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
The use of digital financial services, including money transfers and mobile money, have expanded widely in lower-income countries in the...