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About our research Understanding economic, social, and political issues that shape processes of change

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What makes ID unique? A creative space of invention firmly rooted in the disciplines

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Themes/Clusters ID houses a number of dynamic research clusters

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Knowledge Exchange & Impact Research to make sense of the world… and then change it

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Research highlights:

Justice at the margins: witches, poisoners, and social accountability in Northern Uganda Tim Allen

Decentralization and veiled corruption under China’s ‘rule of mandates’ Mayling Birney

Property and political order in Africa: land rights and the structure of politics Catherine Boone

Poverty in African households: the limits of survey representations Ernestina Coast

A population history of India: from the first modern people to the present day Tim Dyson

The Perversion of Public Land Distribution by Landed Elites: Power, Inequality and Development in Co Jean-Paul Faguet

Private Wealth and Public Revenue in Latin America: Business Power and Tax Politics Tasha Fairfield

Beyond narratives: civic epistemologies and the co-production of environmental knowledge and popular Timothy Forsyth

How do demographic trends change? The onset of birth masculinization in Albania, Georgia, and Vietna Arjan Gjonça

The politics of ethnic identity in Sub-Saharan Africa Elliott Green

The Tertiary Tilt: Education and Inequality in the Developing World Lloyd Gruber

Political Economies of Energy Transition: Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and South Africa Kathryn Hochstetler

NGOs and accountability in China: child welfare organisations Jude Howell

Women’s empowerment and economic development: a feminist critique of story-telling practices in ‘ran Naila Kabeer

Financializing poverty: labor and risk in Indian microfinance Sohini Kar

Double games: success, failure and the relocation of risk in fighting terror, drugs and migration David Keen

Financial accessibility and user fee reforms for maternal- health care in five sub-Saharan countries Tiziana Leone

Local Political Consolidation in Bangladesh: Power, Informality and Patronage David Lewis

Challenges of Social Accountability in Resource-Poor Contexts Shirin Madon

Geographical Imagination and Technological Connectivity in East Africa Laura Mann

Taxing times: taxation, divided societies and the informal economy in Northern Nigeria Kate Meagher

Neopatrimonialism and the political economy of economic performance in Africa: critical reflections Thandika Mkandawire

Fragmentation by design: Universal health coverage policies as governmentality in Senegal Philipa Mladovsky

Consumers as tax auditors Joana Naritomi

RCTs as an opportunity to promote interdisciplinary, inclusive, and diverse quantitative development Naritomi, Sequeira, Weigel, Weinhold

After rape: violence, justice and social harmony in Uganda Holly Porter

The "populist" right challenge to neoliberalism: Social Policy between a rock and a hard place James Putzel

Corruption, trade costs, and gains from tariff liberalization: evidence from Southern Africa Sandra Sequeira

Coalitions and Compliance: The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Patents in Latin America Ken Shadlen

Connectivity, clientelism and public provision Mahvish Shami

The Incoherence of Institutional Reform: Decentralization as a Structural Solution to Immediate Poli Mahvish Shami

Nationalism, development and ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka Rajesh Venugopal

Science and technology policies and the middle-income trap Robert Wade

Mobile technology and food access Leonard Wantchekon

The Participation Dividend Of Taxation: How Citizens In Congo Engage More With The State When It Tri Jonathan Weigel

Regulating Humanitarian Governance: Humanitarianism and the ‘Risk Society’ Stuart Gordon

Boom-Bust Patterns in the Brazilian Amazon Diana Weinhold

How Do Professions Globalize? Lessons from the Global South in US Medical Education Tine Hanrieder

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