Publications

Covid Collective Learning Report

This report provides an overview on the Covid Collective research platform, how it was operationalised, and the learning which emerged from the three-year programme. The foundation of the Covid Collective’s theory of change was the network and relationships that were established and developed...

Joe Taylor & 2 others

Are Trade Rules Undermining Taxation of the Digital Economy in Africa?

ICTD Research in Brief 103

Countries have the potential to tax the digital economy through a combination of at least these four measures, which can be incorporated into their industrial policy and revenue collection strategies.

Karishma Banga

Alexander Beyleveld

Getting Targets Right: How Much Revenue can Lower-Income Countries Raise?

ICTD Policy Brief 6

We highlight that overly zealous tax targets can be actively counter productive to tax administration and suggest five concrete ways to set better targets.

Max Gallien & 2 others

My Experience as a Peer Researcher with the Enabling Early Child Development in Ealing (ECDE) Project

This briefing provides the reflection of a peer researcher working on the Early Childhood Development in Ealing (ECDE) project. The project gathered the perspectives of 77 parents, carers, and 10 children across the borough on services and support for young children (aged 5 and under). This...

Community Research Briefing: Enabling Early Child Development in Ealing (ECDE) Project

This briefing highlights key findings from the Early Childhood Development in Ealing (ECDE) project. The project gathered the perspectives of 77 parents, carers, and 10 children across the borough on services and support for young children (aged 5 and under). This initiative aimed to understand...

Tabitha Hrynick

Anti-Gender Backlash: Where is Philanthropy?

This working paper explores how philanthropic institutions with a history of supporting women’s and LGBTQ+ rights and democracy are seeing and responding to anti-gender backlash, and the background dynamics shaping the struggle. It is based on a scan commissioned by the IDS-led Countering...

Towards Gender Equality in Tax and Fiscal Systems: Moving Beyond the Implicit-Explicit Bias Framework

ICTD Policy Brief 5

As explicit biases become increasingly rare, this policy brief argues that the implicit and explicit bias framework is no longer fit for guiding policy towards improved tax equity and gender equality.

Caren Grown

Giulia Mascagni

Understanding Gender Backlash: Southern Perspectives

IDS Bulletin 55.1

Far from seeing continued steady progress on gender equality, we are currently witnessing significant backlash against gender and sexual rights. Limited and hard-fought gains for some are being reversed, co-opted, and dismantled – all amplified through new social media and digital...

Researching Capacities to Sustain Social Protection in Protracted Crises. Part 2: Early Findings

BASIC Research Research Briefing 2

This briefing applies BASIC Research's new tool – the Capacity Cube – to better understand how to sustain capacity to deliver existing social programmes and systems in situations of climate and/or conflict crisis in Nigeria, Iraq, and Syria.

Researching Capacities to Sustain Social Protection in Protracted Crises. Part 1: The Capacity Cube

BASIC Research Research Briefing 1

This research briefing introduces the Capacity Cube framework – a new tool for thinking about how capacity to deliver national social protection programmes and systems might be sustained in times of crisis.

Nuevas perspectivas para el desarrollo en base a recursos naturales: una visión neo-schumpeteriana para América Latina

El estancamiento económico y las limitaciones para sostener un proceso de desarrollo sostenido en América Latina en las últimas décadas demandan un replanteo profundo y audaz de las políticas de desarrollo productivo y tecnológico. Este replanteo requiere, en primer lugar,...

Anabel Marín

Carlota Pérez

Being New Poor in Bangladesh: Coping Strategies, Constraints, and Trajectories

IDS Working Paper 601

Recent studies of the Covid-19 pandemic have found that millions in Bangladesh fell into poverty during this time, and they were unable to recover to their pre-pandemic economic position. This study draws on qualitative panel data collected from 39 new-poor households in Khulna, coping with...

Sohela Nazneen & 9 others