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    Mobile money taxation in Africa: Causes and consequences (Webinar)

    07 Jul 2020: In the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, cash-strapped governments across Africa will be looking for ways to fill revenue gaps. Having long faced challenges in taxing large multinational corporations and significant informal economic activities, they may be tempted to raise much-needed revenue relatively easily by imposing taxes on rapidly growing digital financial services, particularly mobile money. However, increasing mobile money usage across the continent has the potential to expand financial inclusion.
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    Call for project proposals on climate change in sub-Saharan Africa

    02 Jul 2020: The Partnership for Economic Policy (PEP) has launched a new call for project proposals on the theme of Climate change in Sub-Saharan Africa: The impacts and responses for women and girls. This initiative aims to produce the evidence that local and national policymakers need to inform specific policy interventions for:
  • Blog Post

    Online learning about social protection, for everyone everywhere

    01 Jul 2020: Never has the need for social protection been greater.
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    How can we address religious inequalities in post‑COVID-19 transition?

    23 Jun 2020: Join the Coalition for Religious Equality and Inclusive Development (CREID) online to hear from UK Special Envoy on FoRB and our international panel of experts discuss religious inequalities and Covid-19.
  • Document

    Social norms and supply chains: A focus on child labour and waste recycling in Hlaing Tharyar, Yangon, Myanmar

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020
    This Emerging Evidence Report examines the social norms, and the material and institutional factors that influence the employment of children in various forms of hazardous work in Hlaing Tharyar township, Yangon, Myanmar.
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    Labouring for livelihoods: Gender, productivity and collectivity

    Springerlink, 2020
    Current debates in India on work, employment and labour markets have paid rather little attention to three important distinctions: between sustainable livelihoods and labour force participation; between autonomously managing non-family enterprises versus participation in decision-making within the confines of famil
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    Trust in the time of Corona

    United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2020
    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 and its countermeasures have led to varying physical, psychological, and emotional experiences, shaping not just public health and the economy but also societies.
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    Freedom of movement in West Africa: A snap shot of the history and future of regulating mobility

    International Development Department, University of Birmingham, 2020
    The aim of this policy brief is to provide some historical context to development interventions related to migration since independence in three Upper Guinean Coast countries.
  • Document

    Fictitious commodification and agrarian change: Indigenous peoples and land markets in Highland Ecuador

    Wiley Online Library, 2020
    Creating private property rights and establishing land markets were fundamental to the historical development of capitalism in the Global North and remain at the centre of capitalist development in the Global South. This article contributes to debates about these processes by analysing the relationship between land markets and indigenous peoples in Highland Ecuador.
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    The future is public: Towards democratic ownership of public services

    Transnational Institute, 2020
    This open access book shows that public services are more important than ever in the face of the climate catastrophe, mounting inequalities, and growing political unrest.

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