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Burnham’s plans amount to a much-needed infrastructure of nurture. Now he needs to deliver it
Nicholas Nisbett at IDS argues that infrastructure should not just be seen as roads but also as services, such as social care and nurseries.
Join Matías Bianchi on his new book State vs Algorithm which will explore how digital corporations, concentrated wealth, and ...
The Democratic Republic of Congo became a lithium producer for the first time in its history this year. In June 2026, the Chinese major mining group Zijin Mining began exporting lithium sulphate from ...
Market access on its own does not transform economies. Zero tariffs may open the door, but they do not automatically create exports. For many African firms, the real constraints lie upstream: ...
This report provides the most comprehensive account to date of smart city surveillance in Africa. Expert researchers draw on their contextual experience of their own countries in detailed reports on ...
This Working Paper examines how access to social assistance is reconfigured during conflict in Niger’s Tillabéri and Diffa regions. Using social network research, we find that traditional solidarity ...
Will future wars be fought over water? Global policymakers, politicians and the media promote a sense of catastrophism about the impact of climate change on cross-border water management between ...
The UK government has announced it has dropped its plan to introduce a new mandatory digital-ID system for anyone wanting to work in the UK. It was not alone in wanting to introduce a digital means of ...
The Biometric Digital-ID in Africa report provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date account of digital-ID across Africa. It addresses the critical governance challenges of digital identification ...
In Yemen, women social assistance workers play crucial roles in enabling cash transfer programmes to be responsive to the needs of women and girls. In their roles in communities affected by conflict, ...
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