This podcast looks at what needs to be prioritised to ensure that we do not lose momentum on increasing social protection coverage globally?

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, ...

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Policy making is a messy business. While rationality and certainty are often viewed as desirable traits, the reality is that ...

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Where do you shit? In developing countries, the answer may determine whether you live or die. Around 2.6 billion people defecate in the open. The consequences are dire: shit carries disease and is a ...

There is growing debate on the need for transformational approaches to tackle the challenges facing development in the face of climate change. If current incremental approaches to preventing dangerous ...

Large-scale field experiments on tax compliance have been a thriving field of research in many regions of the world. However, Africa is still lagging behind, as administrative data from anonymised ...

Social and Humanitarian Assistance in Crises: agendas, ambitions and aspirations for more effective intervention.

Over the past five years, colleagues from the Centre for Development Impact (CDI) – a joint initiative between the Institute of Development Studies, Itad and University of East Anglia – have been ...

The central challenge in the original Sussex Manifesto centred on massively increasing the developing countries’ scientific and technological capabilities for creating new knowledge and shaping the ...

The famed self-trained historian Pathisa Nyathi has died aged 73 as a result of complications with diabetes. He has been described by many as a brilliant historian, a living library, an archive of ...