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4 May 2021
Covid-19: Community Resilience in Urban Informal Settlements
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
Around the world, the Covid-19 pandemic has exacerbated differences that already existed. Health outcomes and the economic impacts of resulting lockdowns have not been evenly distributed and inequalities have deepened.
22 April 2021
21 April 2021
How innovations are improving the lives of people with disabilities
It is essential that we test new and innovative ways to reach people with disabilities in order to achieve the Sustainable Development...
25 March 2021
Key Considerations: Indigenous Peoples in COVID-19 Response and Recovery
Indigenous peoples have experienced heightened vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic and face disproportionately high COVID-19...
11 March 2021
Policies and Politics Around Children’s Work in Ghana
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This paper explores policy and legislation aimed at preventing, regulating, and abolishing harmful children’s work in Ghana, and the political debates and controversies surrounding these mechanisms. The paper critically interrogates the successes and challenges of previous and current policies and interventions.
China and Global Development Seminar Series
Horizon 2025-End of the beginning: Development cooperation in the pandemic age
Covid-19 and economic responses to it have amplified and changed the nature of development challenges in fundamental ways. Global...
4 March 2021
Covid-19: A Stress Test for Trust?
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
To tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, governments need citizens to trust messages on behaviour change, and to support more draconian steps like lockdowns. Yet, lack of trust in public authority and a prevalence of rumours are shaping people’s responses to the virus, especially in fragile, conflict-affected places.
Top down or bottom up? Urban development in Africa and China
As African countries experience rapid urbanisation, there is a need to ensure that this process is well managed, and underpinned by...
26 January 2021
Community Resilience: Key Concepts and their Applications to Epidemic Shocks
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed long-standing social inequalities and vulnerabilities, with the most disadvantaged and marginalised...