Addressing the economic challenges of COVID-19 in developing countries

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  Policies and innovations for climate-resilient...

  16 February 2022

  Farmers in low-income countries are one of the groups most at risk from the effects of climate change. This event focuses on the vital role that agricultural adaptation will...

  Event

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  Trade, informality, and corruption: Evidence from...

  The COVID-19 pandemic has induced vast trade disruptions that have stunted firms’ sales, profits, and growth, particularly for small-scale traders. While many formal borders...

  Blog Post

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  India’s Union Budget 2022: Are women’s needs... Kumar Das

  The COVID-19 pandemic has simultaneously exposed and worsened many pre-existing barriers to achieving gender equality. As women face disproportionate risks to their livelihoods...

  Blog Post

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  Prospects for rural jobs in Ethiopia

  Ethiopia’s burgeoning rural population are in need of off-farm employment which the heavily agriculture-reliant economy will struggle to provide. As available land becomes...

  Blog Post

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  Collecting tax revenue in Uganda: The carrot and...

  Text messages focused on enforcement and information are most effective at collecting tax revenue, while encouragement affects the average taxpayer only with visible...

  Blog Post

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  Rebuilding the social compact: Urban service... Mahvish Shaukat, Benjamin Olken, Adnan Khan

  If citizens perceive little benefit from their tax payments, or if local services are disconnected from local decision-making, the social compact between citizen and state...

  Publication