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Nutrition
How to design agriculture and food-related policies, programmes and interventions to improve nutrition.
Nutrition
In much of South Asia, women make up a majority of the agricultural workforce, but what effect does working in agriculture have on the nutrition of these women and their children?
Taxation
Resources to enhance the exchange of tax knowledge in Nigeria
Taxation
Research focusing on challenges in increasing property tax revenues in Africa
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From land grab to win-win. Seizing the opportunities of international investments in agriculture.
Economic and Social Department, FAO, 2009Foreign acquisitions of farm land in developing countries have become the focus of concern. Many observers consider them a new form of colonialism that threatens food security of the poor. However, investments could be good news if the objectives of land purchasers are reconciled with the investment needs of developing countries.DocumentThe politics of social protection in Eastern and Southern Africa
S. Hickey, T. Lavers, M. Niño-Zarazúa, J. Seekings / United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2019The notion that social protection should be a key strategy for reducing poverty in developing countries has now been mainstreamed within international development policy and practice.DocumentScaling up climate-compatible infrastructure: Insights from national development banks in Brazil and South Africa
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2019National development banks (NDBs) and development finance institutions – domestically focused, publicly owned financial institutions with a specific development mandate – are poised to play a role in bridging the investment gap for climate-compatible infrastructure in developing countries.DocumentWhat works to prevent cyber violence against women and girls?
B. Faith, E. Fraser / Department for International Development, UK, 2018Cyber violence against women and girls (Cyber VAWG) is a new and emerging form of violence and the term is used to describe how the internet and information and communication technologies exacerbate and magnify acts of violence against women and girls.DocumentParticipatory impact investing: concepts and definitions
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2018Impact investors have done a lot of good (and some bad) so far, but mostly on their own terms.DocumentParticipatory impact investing: concepts and definitions
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2018Impact investors have done a lot of good (and some bad) so far, but mostly on their own terms.Subscribe
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29 August 2019In 2018, the Institute of Development Studies partnered with the Open Society Foundations Economic Justice Programme to build an evidence base to explore the question: “What constitutes meaningful participation in economic advancement?” R -
5 July 2019Towering over the small island of Adonara in Indonesia, the Ile Boleng volcano is always present in the background. In the nearby village of Adobala, I listened as female heads of households, dressed in sarungs, talked about how they had organised themselves as a women’s group in the local cooperative ‘Lodan Do’e’.
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24th October 2019
For over 20 years, Eldis has provided free access to relevant, up-to-date and diverse research on global development issues.
7th August 2019
Following renewed funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and DFID, the African Property Tax Initiative (APTI) is pleased to announce a second call for proposals for research projects on property taxation that are of a high academic standard and relevant to policy and practice.
7th August 2019
This new issue of the IDS Bulletin, edited by Jody Harris, Molly Anderson, Chantal Clément and Nicholas Nisbett examines a range of perspectives on power in food systems, and the various active players, relationships, activities, and institutions that play a major role in shaping them.
20th June 2019
The latest issue of the IDS Bulletin, Exploring Research–Policy Partnerships in International Development aims to identify how partnerships focused on the production of policy-engaged research seek to achieve societal impact and explores the chall
9th May 2019
With the global rise of inequality and conflict and the acute challenges facing the most socially and politically excluded, civil society organisations, charities and development agencies are increasingly concerned with how to effectively broker the knowledge of marginalised communities.