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    Banco Palmas: Solidarity finance in Conjunto Palmeiras

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020
    Banco Palmas is one of the early examples of solidarity finance.
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    Democratising economic power: The potential for meaningful participation in economic governance and decision-making

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020
    Participation is the act of people engaging in decisions that impact their lives. It has been widely promoted in social, political and civic spheres. However, the question of participation in economic governance is underdeveloped.
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    Ending the financial entrapment of street vendors in Colombia

    Impact Initiative, 2020
    In the global South, the informal economy provides over 50 per cent of urban employment. In Cali, Colombia, the absence of government intervention and financial programmes means that illegal moneylenders are used by workers in the informal economy to keep themselves afloat. Consequently, workers such as street vendors remain beholden to extortionate interest rates.
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    International connectivity and the digital divide in sub-Saharan Africa

    Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le développement international / Foundation for International Development Study and Research, 2020
    During the last decades, international connectivity has improved significantly with the worldwide deployment of some 400 fiber submarine cables (SMCs), transmitting more than 99% of international telecommunications.
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    Unequal growth in Mozambique and the region

    United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2020
    Mozambique has experienced economic growth that substantially reduced the initially huge poverty levels but which is starting to take a toll in terms of inequality. This increasing inequality goes in line with the increasing dualization of this natural resource-rich economy Women are lagging behind in the growing non-subsistence sector of the economy.
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    Key considerations: online information, mis- and disinformation in the context of COVID-19

    Social Science in Humanitarian Action Platform, 2020
    This brief sets out practical considerations relating to flows of information, misinformation and disinformation though online media, particularly social media networks, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. It details various types of online media, key players and influencers on social media, and strategies for ensuring good information and disrupting mis- and disinformation.
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    Global investment, local struggles

    17 Mar 2020: Following the global commodities boom, investment has poured into large-scale extractive, green energy and other resource development projects around the world. Many of these are in the rural margins – places geographically but also politically distant from the centres of economic power.In many places, tensions, struggles and conflicts have arisen around land ‘grabs’, compensation mechanisms, contracts and work opportunities, as well as environmental damage and social changes associated with large-scale resource developments.
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    Nigeria’s low tax collection and poor quality of government expenditure: political and administrative impediments to improvement

    Center for Global Development, USA, 2019
    This study examines the political and administrative barriers to domestic resource mobilization in Nigeria, whose tax ratios are significantly lower than those of neighboring countries. In 2000–2002 and 2014–2017, respectively, the ratio of domestic tax to gross domestic product averaged 5.8 percent and 3.9 percent annually, and value-added tax ratios were 1.0 percent and 0.8 percent.
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    The RSA Citizens’ Economic Council: citizen contributions to policy making highlights 

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020
    The RSA’s Citizen Economic Council was a two-year programme (2016-2018) in which 59 citizens conducted their own enquiry into economic policy in the United Kingdom and worked and deliberated with policymakers to co-create economic policy recommendations.
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    BPDC: Costa Rica’s worker-owned bank

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020
    Banco Popular (Banco Popular y de Desarrollo Comunal, BPDC) is a cooperative bank that is owned and managed by the workers of Costa Rica. Its diverse clients include workers, farmers, enterprises, and a variety of development associations.

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