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The approach based on human rights and the reduction of multidimensional inequalities. A combination inextrica...
This study examines how human rights can guide a form of development that gives priority to improving the well-being of populations, while contributing to the ecological transformation - a form of dev...
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Labour transitions that lead to platform work: Towards increased formality? Evidence from Argentina
The recent growth of the platform economy as a tool for labour exchanges has brought about concerns on the overall quality of jobs created. As labour platforms leave a digital trace, this paper assess...
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Precarisation or Protection? The Impact of Digital Platform Labour on Argentinean Domestic Workers in Times of...
The article analyses how the platform economy affects the domestic service sector, focusing particularly on the issue of workers’ formalisation. It looks at Zolvers, the only digital platform for dome...
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Gender inequalities in the platform economy: The cases of delivery and private passenger transport services in...
This article inspects how the expansion of the platform economy affects gender inequalities, in some new forms as well in reinforcing pre-existing ones. It focuses on two platform occupations in the B...
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How does fertility affect female employment? Evidence from Albania
This article inspects the relationship between fertility and employment, providing an explanatory mixed-methods analysis to gauge their nexus for rural and urban Albania over the 2000s. Instrumenting...
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Climate change education effects on worldwide schoolchildren and their entourage
This systematic review (SR) explores the effects of climate change education (CCE) on the knowledge, attitude and behavior of schoolchildren and their surrounding communities worldwide. CCE e...
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Climate Change Education from the Perspective of Social Norms
This study reviews the interplay between climate change education (CCE) and social norms among children, adolescents and young adults around the globe. The reviewed articles focus on scientific s...
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Research Paper No. 325 | Switching Roles: Gender differences in time use and mental health in Ghana
We explore the association between domestic labor and psychological distress among women and men in Ghana. A growing body of literature has recently focused on the relationship between time use and me...
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Energy and social protection measures for energy poverty
This article examines the impact of energy-enhancing measures for the poor, such as social protection or energy-earmarked measures, on influencing energy poverty and vulnerability. It employs a litera...
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The economic trigger: Enabling gendered social inclusion processes and outcomes amidst poverty escapes in Nige...
This mixed methods paper explores social inclusion of poor women and children in Niger and Malawi. We identify social inclusion outcomes focused primarily on access to education and health, and suppor...
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Social Protection and Multidimensional Poverty: Lessons from Ethiopia, India and Peru
We investigate the impact of three large-scale social protection schemes in Ethiopia, India, and Peru on multidimensional poverty. Using data from the Young Lives cohort study, we show the trend, chan...
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Social Protection and Intrahousehold Resource Allocation: Evidence from Three Large-scale Programs
Social-protection schemes have become a popular form of government intervention in developing countries. The empirical evidence is still scant on their effectiveness in reducing within-household inequ...
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Social Protection and Inequality: Evidence from Ethiopia, India and Peru
Do antipoverty programs reduce inequality? Evidence from Ethiopia, We examine trends of consumption inequality among culturally and socially defined groups in Ethiopia, India and Peru during the pe...
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Estimating the distributional incidence of healthcare spending on curative health services in Sub-Saharan Afri...
Sub-Saharan African countries have been experiencing a persistently high level of inequality in access to healthcare services. Following the global call to eliminate health inequalities worldwide, dif...
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Matching risks with instruments in development banks
This paper explores how development banks should deploy appropriate financial instruments to encourage real economic risk-taking while minimizing financial engineering risks. We distinguish real econo...
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From global to local: Subnational development banks in the era of Sustainable Development Goals
Financing the implementation of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has been a development challenge since the establishment of the 2030 Agenda – especially under the unequal circumstan...
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Financial regulation of national development banks - NDBs
History shows that financial crises have been a significant driver of banking regulation evolution, since the 1930s. Although Basel III made much progress in building a safer and less leveraged system...
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Funding Sources of National Development Banks
Access to large, long-term, and stable funding sources is a prerequisite for achieving the objectives of national development banks (NDBs). By systematically collecting data on the funding sources of...
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Climate Change and Development Bank Project Cycles
In the five years since the Paris Agreement, Development Finance Institutions have made various commitments to aligning their operations with climate change goals. In this report, we analyze the exten...
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Financial performance and Corporate Governance: Evidence from National Development Banks in Africa
This is a draft discussion paper and has not been through an external peer review process. A final ODI working paper will be published after the research conference. This study aims to examine the...
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