This report provides data on household wellbeing in countries in sub-Saharan Africa following the Covid-19 pandemic. The focus is on employment and ...

UN estimate that 20 million are held in bonded labor. Several economic analyses assert that bonded laborers accept these contracts voluntarily, which ...

With the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, development aid and donor agencies face new challenges. They have to deliver essential products and financial ...

The UN estimates that 20 million are held in bonded labor. Several economic analyses assert that bonded laborers accept these contracts voluntarily, which ...

This article revisits aspects of knowledge transmission within the 20th century Islamic scholarly community in Zanzibar. It particularly adresses the ...

ARUSS WorkshopReviewing Dynamics of Change in rural Sudan14 – 16 October 2014Ahfad University for Women   Workshop Programme Tuesday 14/10 ...

Coping with oil in Norway, Angola and Venezuela. Javier Corrales, Amherst College, Jonathon Moses, NTNU, and Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, University of ...

The usufruct mortgage has received little attention from economists. This paper develops and analyzes a theoretical framework in which the borrower, who ...

This paper develops a theoretical framework in which the borrower, who mortgages out, and the lender, who mortgages in, a parcel of land reach their decisions ...

Coping with aridity. Drought impacts and preparedness in Namibia- Experiences from 1992/93 Richard

This paper highlights the main findings of a survey carried out amongst low income groups in Lilongwe and Blantyre, Malawi's two major cities. The survey ...

After the war broke out again in the border areas between the Sudans, a trading pattern known earlier as the “peace markets” reemerged. In ...

An increasing number of poor women in Namibian shantytowns form their own households and female social networks. Men are not part of their family coping strategies.

In all countries, informal systems of reciprocity influence the distribution of state resources. These social networks help people cope with adversity ...

Introduction Richard Moorsom, Jutta Franz and Moono Mupotola Coping with aridity. Drought impacts a

What are the links between various transitional justice mechanisms and the degree of violence and reconciliation in the post-war or post-authoritarian period?

Rainfall records and the analysis of drought Richard Moorsom and J.D.S. Coping with aridity. Drough

This report assesses the aid that was given in support of transitional justice processes in Rwanda and Guatemala between 1995 and 2005. The analysis is ...

This report is the second in a series of six participatory and qualitative studies on poverty in Mozambique, undertaken as part of the monitoring and ...

When societies go from military dictatorship to democracy or from internal armed conflict to peace, one of the toughest choices facing the government in the new order is how to deal with past violence. Great hopes have been pinned on transitional justice mechanisms, but the anticipated positive effects of transitional justice mechanisms on the process of restoring peace or (re)constructing democracy may be too high.