27 January 2023
Africa’s Lockdown Dilemma: High Poverty and Low Trust
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, sub-Saharan African countries faced the dilemma of how to minimise viral transmission without...
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27 January 2023
As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded, sub-Saharan African countries faced the dilemma of how to minimise viral transmission without...
1 August 2022
Published by: Elsevier
The COVID-19 pandemic is a global crisis affecting everyone. Yet, its challenges and countermeasures vary significantly over time and...
27 July 2021
Gender differences (GD) in mental health have come under renewed scrutiny during the COVID-19 pandemic. While rapidly emerging evidence...
1 January 2021
Published by: UNU-WIDER
Does secessionism lead to social polarisation? Despite much research on independence movements, their relationship to polarisation, a...
26 October 2020
Published by: UNU-WIDER
This paper investigates the long-term impact of economic shocks on populism, by exploiting a natural experiment created by the trade...
12 October 2020
Published by: UNU-WIDER
This paper studies how household-level receipts of cash transfers affect political attitudes in Pakistan. The paper exploits the locally...
As part of the our Trust and Governance programme, IDS has partnered up with a team of international researchers from the ISDC,...
1 January 2020
Published by: UNU-WIDER
The global spread of COVID-19 is one of the largest threats to people and governments since the Second World War. The on-going pandemic...
1 January 2020
Published by: UNU-WIDER
This paper explores the relationship between household exposure to riots and social capital in urban India using a panel dataset...
1 January 2020
Published by: UNU-WIDER
The primary policy response to suppress the spread of COVID-19 in high-income countries has been to lock down large sections of the...