All Outputs (3)

Examining the response of the IMF to crises in Low-Income Countries with a focus on Gender Budgeting: From the Global Financial Crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic (2024)
Thesis
Naughton, J. Examining the response of the IMF to crises in Low-Income Countries with a focus on Gender Budgeting: From the Global Financial Crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

The thesis examines IMF concessional lending to Low-Income Countries (LICs) in response to crises ranging from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007-2009 to the COVID-19 pandemic. In doing so, it engages with the IMF’s reinvigorated influence in... Read More about Examining the response of the IMF to crises in Low-Income Countries with a focus on Gender Budgeting: From the Global Financial Crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Political Economy of Social Policy in Africa: The Case of Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria (2021)
Thesis
Chukwuma, J. N. The Political Economy of Social Policy in Africa: The Case of Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This PhD study seeks to generate novel insights into how social policy, here in the context of health, has taken form in Nigeria. At the global level, healthcare has been an area of social policy which has received much attention, with African Govern... Read More about The Political Economy of Social Policy in Africa: The Case of Universal Health Coverage in Nigeria.

Exit, Quasi-Exit, And Silence : How Developing Countries React when Discontent with the Investment Treaty Regime (2018)
Thesis
Mossallam, M. A. M. Exit, Quasi-Exit, And Silence : How Developing Countries React when Discontent with the Investment Treaty Regime. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

As a result of growing discontent with Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) and the expansive nature of the substantive protection standards in Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs), States around the world are revisiting their investment treaties... Read More about Exit, Quasi-Exit, And Silence : How Developing Countries React when Discontent with the Investment Treaty Regime.