Publications

Connecting, Contesting, and Consolidating

IDS Briefing

Resisting the rollback of women’s rights and LGBTQI+ rights. This Briefing is based on a rapid scoping review of anti-rollback actors and activities post-2015, in 14 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, the Philippines,...

Tessa Lewin & 2 others

Zakat Payments in Pakistan Exceed State Social Protection

ICTD Factsheet

Every year, hundreds of millions of Muslims across the world pay a proportion of their wealth as zakat, one of the five pillars of Islam mandating an annual payment of a proportion of an individual’s productive wealth, broadly representing 2.5 per cent. Consequently, zakat represents a...

Max Gallien & 2 others

Furthering a feminist fiscal agenda: Engendering tax and development

Development Policy Review 43

Taxation has received increasing attention from researchers and in the context of development policy, though less attention has been paid to the gendered impacts of taxation, particularly in lower-income countries. Purpose We seek to understand how taxation affects men and women differently...

Anuradha Joshi & 2 others

Tax and Gender: Why Informality Matters

ICTD Policy Brief 16

Recent policy debates have increasingly focused on the gendered impacts of taxation, yet much of this work is rooted in high-income contexts, overlooking the realities of low- and middle-income countries where most individuals, particularly women, work in the informal sector. This policy...

Max Gallien & 3 others

Towards Inclusive Social Assistance for Marginalised People in East and Northeast Uganda

BASIC Research Working Paper 36

The negative impacts of crises on marginalised people’s lives are exacerbated by intersecting inequalities. However, there is limited knowledge about the layered effects of marginalisation and protracted crises; what this means for how people cope and access social assistance in particular...

Jackie Shaw & 2 others

Designing Social Assistance Programmes for Displaced People

BASIC Research Policy Briefing 6

Social assistance programmes for displaced people are likely to be more effective if they take the circumstances and preferences of displaced people into account, yet very few do. Most research tends to focus on those who deliver assistance rather than those who receive it. This Policy Briefing...

Local Self-Governance on the Somalia–Kenya Border

IDS Policy Briefing 219

Thirty years of civil war, insurgency, and counterinsurgency in Somalia and neighbouring northeastern Kenya have hollowed out state services and left borderland communities beleaguered. Yet in this apparently ‘ungoverned’ space, local self-governance persists. Citizen-led reflection shows...

Patta Scott-Villiers

Understanding the Complex Knowledge Economy Toward Antimicrobial Stewardship in West Bengal, India

Knowledge dissemination and awareness raising is a common strategy for fostering antimicrobial stewardship and tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR). However, empirical evidence suggests that the dissemination of technical/biomedical information about AMR, alone, is insufficient to improve...

Ayako Ebata & 5 others

Food safety certification in urban food markets: the willingness to pay

This paper estimates consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) for meat certified to be safe for human consumption in Peru Citizens in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are increasingly concerned about the safety of food they consume. Across LMICs, urban markets remain the most important source...

Ayako Ebata & 2 others

Is Poverty Underestimated Because Males and Females Report Food Security and Food Expenses Differently?

BASIC Research Research Briefing 4

Does the gender of household survey respondents affect the accuracy of reported food consumption? Findings from a randomisation-based survey of beneficiary households in the Productive Safety Net Programme in Ethiopia suggest that it might – with implications for the targeting of such programmes.

Cross-Border Dynamics Between Burundi and Tanzania in the Context of Viral Haemorrhagic Fever Outbreaks, 2025

SSHAP Briefing

This brief summarises key considerations regarding cross-border dynamics between the Republic of Burundi and the United Republic of Tanzania in the context of viral haemorrhagic fever (VHF) outbreaks in Tanzania and the Republic of Uganda. On 13 January 2025, the World Health Organization...

Understanding Digital Rights: Definitions, Conceptions, and Myths

Digital Explainer

This Explainer introduces digital rights, how they are defined and where they come from. It explores three conceptions and common myths.

Tony Roberts