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 ...
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 ...
Using the case study of the Kibera slums, this paper takes a medical anthropological approach to discuss and explain the untold and common practice among the urban poor in developing countries that is ...
Accountability is now a buzzword in contemporary development debates. It is central to development policy, whether government accountability (as a central component of good governance), corporate ...
In keeping with its polarised politics, Brazil’s food system is a complicated picture: highly industrialised production on the one hand, and a wealth of progressive public policies and strong social ...
AI-enabled mass surveillance systems supplied and funded by China violate fundamental freedoms, researchers warn.
The report provides the most comprehensive account to date of smart city surveillance in 11 countries in Africa ...
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, ...
Ce blog est disponible en français. Despite efforts by the Ivorian government to improve access to Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET), several cities in the country, including ...
This blog is also available in English. Malgré les efforts déployés par le gouvernement ivoirien pour améliorer l’accès à l’enseignement et à la formation techniques et professionnels (EFTP), plusieur ...
There is, this Brief argues, a new governance paradigm emerging, characterised by the rise of “governance by networks” and “rule by data”. This flux, say the authors, is marked by a hollowing out of ...