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  IBEKA: community-owned and managed mini grids in Indonesia

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020

  Institut Bisnis dan Ekonomi Kerakyatan (IBEKA), or People Centred Economic and Business Institute, supports rural electrification by installing small-scale hydro or wind mini grids and setting up village-based organisations to own, maintain and operate the systems.
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  Jubilee Debt Campaign: civil society voice in global debt governance

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020

  Jubilee 2000 was a highly successful global campaign to bring about debt relief for developing countries, which galvanised activists into a shared global project and brought them into negotiations with creditors. The Jubilee campaign lodged the concept of odious debt in the public consciousness.
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  RUDI multi-trading company: locally-owned agricultural trade network 

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020

  The Rural Urban Distribution Initiative (RUDI) was set up in India in 2004 by the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA). It is a branded local network for the procurement, marketing, and distribution of agricultural products by rural women and is owned by the small-scale farmers and rural women involved.
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  Structural transformation, inequality, and inclusive growth in South Africa

  United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2020

  This paper evaluates structural change, inequality dynamics, and industrial policy in South Africa between 1960 and the present day. We find that South Africa experienced growthenhancing structural transformation until the early 1970s, before entering a period of premature deindustrialization.
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  Visions of urban modernity and the shrinking of public space:challenges for street work in African cities

  Nordic Africa Institute / Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, 2020

  Making cities inclusive is one of the goals of Agenda 2030, and access to public spaces is identified as an important sub-goal. However, in urban Africa, access by street vendors and other marginalised groups to public spaces seems to be on the decline.
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  Handwashing compendium for low resource settings: a living document

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020

  Frequent and proper handwashing with soap is vital to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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  Resource warfare, pacification and the spectacle of ‘green’ development: Logics of violence in engineering extraction in Southern Madagascar

  Elsevier, 2020

  Bringing political ecology's concern with the critical politics of nature and resource violence into dialogue with key debates in political geography, critical security studies and research on the geographies and phenomenology of violence and warfare, this paper explores strategies ‘from above’ in relation to the establis
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  Will Covid-19 change our economy? Not unless we reimagine it.

  27 Apr 2020: Covid-19 has introduced a huge degree of uncertainty into people’s lives (most especially, thus far,
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  Preston model: Community wealth generation and a local cooperative economy

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020

  After the financial crisis of 2007/8, the city of Preston in Lancashire, UK, lost half of its government grants and nearly a billion pounds (US$1.3 billon) in private investments.
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  Up & Go: A platform for fair work and liveable wages

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020

  Up & Go is an online platform which brings together several cooperatively owned cleaning businesses for fair work conditions and liveable wages in a sector usually characterised by informal, precarious, and low-paid work. It is a sharing economy platform owned by its workers. Together they set prices, and 95 percent of the profits go to supporting the cooperatively owned businesses.

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