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  'Empresas recuperadas': Argentina's recovered factory movement

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2019

  The ‘empresas recuperadas' or worker-recovered enterprise movement in Argentina emerged as a response to the country's sovereign debt crisis of 2001, with workers fighting for their right to run abandoned factories. Central to the movement is an ethos of solidarity, with worker-owned enterprises based on horizontal authority, collective decision-making and shared returns from the business
• Blog Post

  Shifting economic power dimensions for women in Adonara, Indonesia

  05 Jul 2019: Towering over the small island of Adonara in Indonesia, the Ile Boleng volcano is always present in the background.
• Blog Post

  First Facebook, then Huawei – time for new thinking on governing big tech?

  27 Jun 2019: This blog originally appeared on the Institute of Development Studies website and is reposted with th
• Document

  The delta of impact: Mapping a meta-impact pathway to uncover six stepping stones of research impact

  Impact Initiative, 2019

  This working paper explores how barriers to impact can be overcome using a unique methodology, devised to be collaborative and conducive, for understanding the many overlapping outcomes that add up to research impact from across a diverse programme of evidence.
• Document

  No time to waste: Tackling the plastic pollution crisis before it’s too late

  Tearfund, 2019

  This report describes the environmental destruction, sickness, mortality, and damage to livelihoods that the plastic pollution crisis is causing. The report outlines the problem – namely the huge recent increase in the production and distribution of single-use plastics, and its expansion across the globe to countries lacking the capacity to collect, manage a
• Document

  Myanmar's Buddhist Burmese nationalism: Implications for Rohingya humanitarian crisis

  Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies, 2019

  Ethno-religious tensions and sectarian violence has been a key characteristic in Myanmar ever since its independence. One of the gravest conflicts in the country is, no doubt, the inhumanity directed towards those titled the “most persecuted minority”, i.e. the Muslim Rohingya minority by the dominant Buddhist Rakhines.
• Organisation

  Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies (BIPSS)

  Bangladesh Institute of Peace and Security Studies (BIPSS) is a leading institution in Bangladesh for informed analysis on all aspects of broad spectrum of peace and security studies in the region
• Document

  Linking participation with economic advancement: PEKKA case study

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2019

  Grass-roots member-owned cooperatives for female heads of households in rural Indonesia (PEKKA) empower the women members through three economic activities: community-based microfinance through savings and borrowing; a closed trading and marketing system, branded as PEKKA Mart; and economic lobbying and advocacy.
• Document

  Deepening impact through a participatory due diligence process

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2019

  Impact investing can create a disconnect between the needs of the people that an investment means to serve and the intentions of the investor.
• Document

  Linking participation and economic advancement. Ghana Civil Society Platform on the IMF Programme: case study

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2019

  Eleven Accra-based civil society organisations (CSOs) working on social accountability, anti-corruption and governance joined forces in November 2014 to influence the design, implementation and monitoring of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)-backed extended credit arrangement for Ghana (2015–18).

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