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  Participation in economic advancement: The experience of the Brazilian Network of Community Banks (BNCB)

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2020

  This case study was designed to investigate how people in poor communities in Brazil are taking action to improve their local economies and how participation is important to achieve that.
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  Measuring health system resilience in a highly fragile nation during protracted conflict: South Sudan 2011–15

  2019

  Health systems resilience (HSR) is defined as the ability of a health system to continue providing normal services in response to a crisis,
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  Understanding fragility: implications for global health research and practice

  2019

  Advances in population health outcomes risk being slowed—and potentially reversed—by a range of threats increasingly presented as ‘fragility
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  Health system strengthening in post-conflict ethnic regions of Northeastern Myanmar: a qualitative study

  2019

  Civil wars, political conflicts, ethnic issues and stagnant social development have resulted in fragile health systems in Northeastern Myanmar. The healthcare provision continues to be fragile and inefficient, with prevalent health inequity.
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  The many hidden faces of extreme poverty: Inclusion and exclusion of extreme poor people in development interventions in Bangladesh, Benin and Ethiopia

  African Studies Centre / Afrika Studiecentrum, Leiden University, 2020

  While the inclusion of extreme poor people is a noble and necessary objective, it is challenging. Attempts to include extreme poor people in development interventions have often been disappointing. ‘The Many Hidden Faces of Extreme Poverty’ addresses the challenge to include the poorest people.
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  Women in the gig economy: paid work, care and flexibility in Kenya and South Africa

  Overseas Development Institute, 2019

  The gig economy is expanding globally, with exponential growth forecast in traditionally female-dominated sectors – notably on-demand household services including cooking, cleaning and care work. But little research to date has focused on gendered experiences of gig work or on gig workers outside North America and Europe.
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  Small business owners and corporate tax responsibility in Nigeria: An exploratory study

  International Centre for Tax and Development, 2020

  This study explores how small business owners talk about their tax responsibility, especially in non-enabling institutional contexts. It identifies two main types of tax responsibility discourses amongst these business owners: (1) duty-based and (2) rights-based.
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  Political ecology and differential vulnerabilities to droughts among livestock farmers in South Africa: A case study of Mpakeni community

  STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, 2020

  Most of South Africa’s black rural population reside in the former homelands or Bantustans, commonly referred to as communal areas by the post-apartheid government (Clark and Luwaya 2017). Amongst a variety of livelihood activities that black rural households engage in, livestock production offers multiple-use value, although its contribution to local livelihood is sometimes underestimated (C.
• Blog Post

  Democratising economic power

  20 Jan 2020: As the world’s economic elites gather in Davos, I am reflecting on a blog I wrote last year in reaction to the 2019 World Economic Forum focus on “Globalisation 4.0”
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  Health financing in fragile and conflict-affected settings: what do we know, seven years on

  Elsevier, 2019

  In 2012, an exploratory literature review was con-ducted to analyse the main themes and findings of recent literature focusing on health financing in FCAS.

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