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  <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128096" />
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  <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128096</id>
  <updated>2026-05-09T04:04:24Z</updated>
  <dc:date>2026-05-09T04:04:24Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Postdoctoral scholarships to promote careers in development studies: CDS experience and wider issues</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324460" />
    <author>
      <name>Amirali, Asha</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Copestake, James G.</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/324460</id>
    <updated>2025-08-26T06:48:14Z</updated>
    <published>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Postdoctoral scholarships to promote careers in development studies: CDS experience and wider issues
Authors: Amirali, Asha; Copestake, James G.
Abstract: Since 2012, the Centre of Development Studies at the University of Bath has employed six post-doctoral research fellows on successive two-year contracts, funded by a private donation from an alumnus. This paper draws on this experience to reflect on how to support development studies research activities and careers. It reaffirms the case for helping promising early career researchers to build upon and move beyond their doctoral work, the value of research autonomy at this stage, and balancing research autonomy with membership of relevant specialist clusters and networks.</summary>
    <dc:date>2024-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>Digital cash transfers from the perspective of intended beneficiaries: A comparative exploration of effectiveness</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/300378" />
    <author>
      <name>Al Fara, Heba</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/300378</id>
    <updated>2024-07-20T01:04:41Z</updated>
    <published>2023-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Digital cash transfers from the perspective of intended beneficiaries: A comparative exploration of effectiveness
Authors: Al Fara, Heba
Abstract: Digitalization has been identified as a primary aim for humanitarian organizations because it is rapidly altering the way humanitarian logistics and aid activities are implemented, directly affecting the way the humanitarian field supports those in need. Nonetheless, digital humanitarian tools are usually designed to meet the requirements of humanitarian aid agencies, not aid recipients, using top-down innovations, which creates a gap in aid beneficiary perspectives and experiences to enhance the utility of digital aid mechanisms. Using two NGO's reports of beneficiary experiences, this paper compares the experiences of aid beneficiaries in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya using mobile money, and illustrates different effectiveness outcomes from the perspective of aid recipients.. This paper shows that the context in which mobile money is implemented according to four main factors identified in the literature - access to target populations, sustainability of programming, data protection, and ethical concerns in delivery - determines aid recipient experiences and views of mobile money effectiveness.</summary>
    <dc:date>2023-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>Can India universalize social insurance before its demographic dividend ends? The principles and architecture for universalizing social security by 2030</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263279" />
    <author>
      <name>Mehrotra, Santosh K.</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263279</id>
    <updated>2023-12-15T02:59:23Z</updated>
    <published>2022-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Can India universalize social insurance before its demographic dividend ends? The principles and architecture for universalizing social security by 2030
Authors: Mehrotra, Santosh K.
Abstract: As much as 91% of India's workforce of 475 million is informal, lacking social insurance. The latest effort on social security is India's Social Security Code 2020, which merges eight existing laws. The paper finds the Code wanting by comparing it with the principles that should guide social insurance for informal workers in India. Drawing on this analysis it then sets out proposals for what a social insurance system for India could look like. The roadmap to such reform is long drawn out and challenging given the size of the country, the immensity of its population, its diversity and the complexity of informality in the workforce. Nevertheless, the goal remains that over the next ten years, social insurance should cover the entire workforce, in accordance with ILO Conventions. The paper closes by estimating the fiscal cost of what is proposed, both to federal and state governments.</summary>
    <dc:date>2022-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>Afterglow? The long-term influence of development finance institutions on firms' environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies</title>
    <link rel="alternate" href="https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263280" />
    <author>
      <name>Kelk, Stephane</name>
    </author>
    <author>
      <name>Copestake, James G.</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://hdl.handle.net/10419/263280</id>
    <updated>2023-12-22T02:57:59Z</updated>
    <published>2022-01-01T00:00:00Z</published>
    <summary type="text">Title: Afterglow? The long-term influence of development finance institutions on firms' environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies
Authors: Kelk, Stephane; Copestake, James G.
Abstract: The paper enquires into the long-term effect of development finance institutions (DFI) on the environmental, social and governance (ESG) policies of companies in which they have invested. It does this through a review of secondary data on the ESG policies of ten companies operating in Africa and India that were recipients of investment from CDC, the DFI owned by the UK government. We find that most of these companies did invest in and maintain ESG initiatives, and two may also have affected the adoption of ESG policies by larger organisations that took them over. But while this is consistent with the hypothesis that CDC can contribute to strengthening ESG policies (particularly through equity investment) the evidence was mostly circumstantial rather than explicit. To help fill this evidence gap we suggest that CDC and other DFIs can be more open about the ESG goals linked to specific investments, and investees about what they subsequently do. And while it may still be almost impossible to establish causal links between DFIs and ESG activities statistically, there is scope for producing stronger evidence of the link using qualitative impact evaluation methods.</summary>
    <dc:date>2022-01-01T00:00:00Z</dc:date>
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