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   Food Prices June 2013 update

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 5 July 2013

   Food price updates

   Steve Wiggins and Sharada Keats

   ODI’s food prices updates focus on tracking international prices of key staple cereals maize, rice, and wheat, and provide commentary on events in markets that affect these prices. They also follow international food and commodity price indices.

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   Informal taxation and livelihoods: A neglected research agenda

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 28 June 2013

   Paul Harvey tackles taxation ‘myths’ and explains why informal and formal taxation plays an important role in people’s everyday struggle to secure their livelihoods.

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   Taxation and livelihoods: A Review of the evidence from fragile and conflict affected rural areas

   Publication - Discussion papers - 27 June 2013

   Oliver Lough, Richard Mallett and Paul Harvey

   Through a selective review of key literature, we argue in this paper that if we are truly interested in the relationships between taxation and livelihoods, then an exclusive focus on formal taxation is inadequate.

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   Shock response readiness appraisal toolkit

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 15 June 2013

   Anna McCord

   This toolkit supports assessment of the readiness of low-and middle-income countries to respond to future shocks through social protection provision, and to examine the institutional context from the donor perspective, which frames these responses.

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   Agricultural development policy: a contemporary agenda

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 31 May 2013

   Steve Wiggins, John Farrington, Giles Henley, Natasha Grist and Anna Locke

   This paper summarises the current state of thinking on agricultural policies for development.

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   Maximising the impact of transdisciplinary research with a novel approach: ROMA

   Publication - Books or book chapters - 29 May 2013

   North-South Dialogues

   Claudia Michel, Simon Hearn, Gabriela Würst, Thomas Breau

   This chapter in the book 'Maximising the Impact of Research: The NCCR North-South Approach', discusses the impact of research, how to prove it and how to assess whether it works.

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   Youth and the post-2015 agenda: making the voices of young people count

   Event - Public event - 28 May 2013 17:30 - 19:00 (GMT+01 (BST))

   Expert panelists share their reflections on how a youth-lens to the post 2015 development framework can deliver for wider society.

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   Technical input 'on the ground' deserves donor backing

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 22 May 2013

   'Development needs collective local action. More science and technical advisors should be supporting that.'

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9. What do we know about the impact of social protection programmes on the decision to migrate?

   Publication - Journal articles or issues - 15 May 2013

   Migration and Development

   Jessica Hagen-Zanker and Carmen Leon Himmelstine

   This literature review synthesises the current empirical evidence on how access to social protection in low-income and middle-income countries influences decisions to migrate internally or internationally.

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    Social protection pathways: shaping social justice outcomes for the most marginalised, now and post-2015

    Publication - Research reports and studies - 15 May 2013

    Nicola Jones and Thea Shahrokh

    This Background Note provides a theory of change framework for understanding macro to micro-impact pathways for transformative social protection.

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