Covid-19

  • Child workers need rights, not policing, to weather the pandemic

    By Roy Maconachie, Sam Okyere and Neil Howard The development community wants to help child workers during and after the COVID-19 pandemic, but unless it rethinks its programming it could cause harm itself. Today is the World Day Against Child...

  • Urban inequality and COVID-19 in Latin America

    by Eduardo Lépore and Séverine Deneulin In country after country, public health measures of social distancing and isolation have been implemented to contain the contagion of COVID-19. In countries with well developed welfare states, these have been accompanied by social...

  • Covid-19 – a catalyst for development?

    Edited by James Copestake and Rosie Maslin On 7th April we published the thoughts of a group of scholars on Covid-19 and the Developmental State. We then invited postgraduate students at Bath who are enrolled on development studies and related...

  • Covid-19 and the Developmental State

    Edited by James Copestake and Fariba Alamgir In a rapidly evolving situation, we asked a group of scholars what light they thought the covid-19 pandemic is throwing on variation in the capability of the state to act in the public interest in...