IDD, University of Birmingham News – May
Journal article:
- Rehnuma Ferdous (ex-IDD PhD student and Postdoctoral Research Fellow) and Fiona Nunan had the following article published: How patron-client relations influence fisheries co-management: A case study of Bangladesh, World Development.
- Sameen A. Mohsin Ali & Tamara Moule The Impact of Donor Engagement on Bureaucratic Ambition and Motivation in Aid Recipient Countries (Brief Report from the Field). Public Administration and Development.
- Jonathan Fisher with Idayat Hassan: Platforms are people too: Social media firms and international relations”. Perspectives on Politics
Working papers:
IDD’s Governance and Social Development Resource Centre has published the following papers and reports:
- Rute M. Caeiro, Rachel M. Gisselquist, and Klarizze Puzon, ‘Inequality, Income, and Democracy in Perspective: Insights from Novel Data Analysis’, UNU-WIDER Working Paper 32/2025 (May 2025).
- Daniel Chachu, Michael Danquah, and Rachel M. Gisselquist, ‘Towards a Measure of Local Government Performance in Ghana: Conceptual Framework, Data and Results’, UNU-WIDER Working Paper 26/2025 (April 2025).
- Ines A. Ferreira, Rachel M. Gisselquist, and Finn Tarp, ‘Absolute versus relative inequality and social preferences: a comparative study between Mozambique and Vietnam’, UNU-WIDER Working Paper (April 2025).
- Ines A. Ferreira, Rachel M. Gisselquist, and Finn Tarp, ‘Is inequality always unfair? Experimental evidence on preferences for redistribution in Mozambique and Vietnam’, UNU-WIDER Working Paper 11/2025 (March 2025).
Reports:
- William Avis (2025). Investment in Refugee Education. K4DD Rapid Evidence Review 226. Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies. DOI: 10.19088/K4DD.2025.033.
- Sian Herbert (2025). Climate Change, Environmental Degradation, and Conflict in the Sahel. K4DD Rapid Evidence Review 204. Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies. DOI: 10.19088/K4DD.2025.019.
- Iffat Idris (2024). Pre-existing conditions leading to violence during political transitions. K4DD Rapid Evidence Review 169. Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies.
- Sithandiwe Mujuru (2025). K4DD Mpox Health Evidence Summary No.12. Brighton, UK: Institute of Development Studies. DOI: 10.19088/K4DD.2025.015. https://k4d.ids.ac.uk/resource/k4dd-mpox-health-evidence-summary-no-12 This is the latest in a series of Mpox evidence summaries she has compiled since 2024.
Project news:
New GSDRC working paper series; With financial support from the School of Government, the GSDRC is launching a working paper series. The series aims to support high-quality, policy-relevant research within the School on issues of governance and development — facilitating discussion around this research; supporting the broader dissemination of key findings; and providing an intermediate outlet for papers prior to eventual journal or book publication. Open to all relevant research within the School. GSDRC has joined Bluesky. Follow them at @gsdrc.org
The IDD’s Thinking and Working Politically Community of Practice has published the following papers:
- Ride the Wind but Know the Tide: 15 years of Politically Informed Subnational Governance Reform in Sri Lanka (2005–2020) Monitoring and Evaluation in Thinking and Working Politically Webinar Report Renewing the public domain: Can a more socially embedded bureaucracy help?
- Micro-foundations of Socially Embedded Bureaucracies
Jonathan Fisher, Niheer Dasandi, and Nathalie Raunet (Assistant Prof in CAL) Molly Sundberg at Stockholm have started a new ESRC project: “Global Britain, Backlash, and the Politics of “Values” in Contemporary UK-Africa Polic” from March 2025-March 2028
Media commentary:
- Sameen A. Mohsin Ali, Who are the Baloch Liberation Army? Pakistan train hijacking was fuelled by decades of neglect and violence, The Conversation, 14 March 2025.