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    Return of the rebel: legacies of war and reconstruction in West Africa’s Ebola epidemic

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The spread of Ebola in West Africa centres on a region with a shared recent history of transnational civil war and internationally led post-conflict reconstruction efforts. This legacy of conflict and shortcomings in the reconstruction efforts are key to understanding how the virus has spread. The dynamics of warfare tied into and accentuated the state’s remoteness from many people.
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    Ebola, politics and ecology: beyond the ‘Outbreak Narrative'

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The origin of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa has been traced to the likely confluence of a virus, a bat, a two-year-old child and an underequipped rural health centre.
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    Ebola and extractive industry

    J. Allouche / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The economic effects of the Ebola health crisis are slowly unfolding as the virus continues to affect Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea. The most important sector is mining as these three countries share a rich iron ore geological beltway.
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    Urbanisation, the peri-urban growth and Zoonotic disease

    L. Waldman / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    Ebola has had significant, negative effects in the rapidly expanding, unregulated areas of peri-urban and urban West Africa. The residents of these areas maintain vital connections with rural populations while intermingling with and living in close proximity to urban and elite populations. These interconnections fuel the spread of Ebola.
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    The pathology of inequality: gender and ebola in West Africa

    J. Diggins, E. Mills / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The international response to Ebola has been decried for being ‘too slow, too little, too late’. As well as racing to respond, this parctice paper argues for the need to consider what has happened over the past decades to leave exposed fault lines that enabled Ebola to move so rapidly across boundaries of people’s bodies, villages, towns and countries.
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    The pathology of inequality: gender and ebola in West Africa

    J. Diggins, E. Mills / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    The international response to Ebola has been decried for being ‘too slow, too little, too late’. As well as racing to respond, this parctice paper argues for the need to consider what has happened over the past decades to leave exposed fault lines that enabled Ebola to move so rapidly across boundaries of people’s bodies, villages, towns and countries.
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    Local engagement in Ebola outbreaks and beyond in Sierra Leone

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2014
    Containment strategies for Ebola rupture fundamental features of social, political and religious life. Control efforts that involve local people and appreciate their perspectives, social structures and institutions are therefore vital. Unfortunately such approaches have not been widespread in West Africa where response strategies have been predominantly top-down.
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    Gender and Food Security | BRIDGE Cutting Edge Pack

    A. Spieldoch, G. Aboud, A. Brody / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    There is more than enough food in the world to feed everyone, but the number of people who do not have enough to eat remains unacceptably high, with disproportionate impacts on women and girls. Reversing this shocking trend must be a top priority for governments and international institutions and responses must treat food insecurity as a gender equality, rights and social justice issue.
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    How we...uphold editorial quality

    L. Daniel, C. Fisher, Y. Kunaratnam / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
    For all knowledge and information intermediaries, the quality of the information they deal with is central to their work. At the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) over the last ten years, we have developed a range of Knowledge Services to encourage access to, and use of, development research and information.
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    Strengthening Health Systems for Resilience

    G Bloom, H MacGregor, A McKenzie, E Sokpo. / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015
    In countries with high levels of poverty or instability and with poor health system management and governance, people are highly vulnerable to shocks associated with ill health, including major epidemics. An effective health system can help build their resilience by reducing exposure to infection and minimising the impact of sickness on livelihoods and economic development.

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