The conference is the culmination of a five-year international research programme, BASIC (Better Assistance in Crises) ...

This Policy Briefing synthesises emerging lessons from research conducted by the Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research programme, predominantly in the northeastern region of the country (which ...

Examining the implementation of VAT on cross-border digital transactions in Senegal, focused on transactions involving digital B2C services.

In response to the war, the Lebanese Ministry of Environment converted public buildings into shelters, while the Ministry of Social Affairs distributed emergency cash aid through the NPTP/ESSN program ...

Dr Rosalind Willi recently passed her viva voce, with no corrections. The focus of her thesis was the wellbeing of Syrian Armenian children in situations of displacement and return. In this blog she ...

Our Masvingo province A1 sites – Wondedzo and Sanangwe near Masvingo town and Clare and Lonely A near Chatsworth in Gutu – are classic dryland maize growing areas. In good years, many tonnes of ...

The global expansion of digital services – from streaming, e-commerce, and software, to online education – has created new tax challenges, particularly for developing countries. In Africa, governments ...

Governments around the world are starting to realise that engaging their citizens more in shaping the decisions that affect their everyday lives improves both legitimacy and the quality of public ...

Resilience has, in the past four decades, been a term increasingly employed throughout a number of sciences: psychology and ecology, most prominently. Increasingly one finds it in political science, ...

Shruti Jain is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Development Studies. She works at the intersection of development, environment, communication, and democracy. She has written in Hindi and ...