Inclusion

1 April 2022

Electric Citizenship: Service Delivery and the Creation of a Public Good

Erum A. Haider

Providing fair and equitable access to utilities is the cornerstone of building trust between states and citizens. But states are increasingly under pressure to reduce subsidies for utilities such as water and electricity. Last year...

15 October 2021

Mapping Urban Living Standards in Developing Countries with Energy Consumption Data

Felix Agyemang, Sean Fox, Rashid Memon

Rapid urbanization in low and middle-income countries is contributing to the ‘urbanization of poverty’. Yet the true scale and nature of this challenge are unknown. Census data are infrequent and household surveys...

17 September 2021

Using Cash Transfer Programs to Get Children Back to School from Work

Nasir Iqbal

The prevalence of child labour in Pakistan is very high: up to 22% of children between the ages of 5 and 14 years are engaged in the worst form of child labour, including bonded labour in agriculture and brick kilns...

3 September 2021

How did Covid-19 affect women’s autonomy and access to healthcare in Pakistan?

Ali Cheema, Sarah Khan, Shandana Khan Mohmand

With Pakistan facing a fourth wave of the Covid-19 pandemic and new restrictions being imposed in major cities, research from the IDS-led Action for Empowerment and Accountability programme sheds new light on the gendered impacts and experiences of the pandemic in urban Pakistan...

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Inclusion

Electric Citizenship: Service Delivery and the Creation of a Public Good

Mapping Urban Living Standards in Developing Countries with Energy Consumption Data

Using Cash Transfer Programs to Get Children Back to School from Work

How did Covid-19 affect women’s autonomy and access to healthcare in Pakistan?