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Digital tools like apps and online platforms are often promoted as a way to expand women's economic opportunities, but access alone rarely translates into lasting engagement or economic gains. The most effective interventions are those designed around women's specific constraints – such as mobility, caregiving responsibilities, and job preferences – rather than relying on techno...

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A review of research into marginalised 'subaltern' groups across the Global South examines why democratic gains for the poor and excluded have proved so difficult to secure – and why, in many places, they are now being reversed.

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Political polarisation is rising worldwide and carries especially high costs in developing countries, but research points to evidence-based interventions – from cross-partisan media exposure to identity priming – that can help build community resilience against it.

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A light-touch training programme that helped low-skilled workers in Senegal act more conscientiously boosted their job retention and earnings.

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AI RCTs are on the rise; a trend that’s set to continue, and is likely to intensify. But randomising a rapidly evolving, increasingly widely adopted, technology poses a distinct set of challenges. So how can we actually garner durable, generalisable and policy relevant insights?

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