A recent ODID research roundtable focused on citizenship. While we may think of citizenship as a legal status, as the rights and duties and relationships that people have to the state, it’s conceived of much more broadly, for example encompassing lobbying, allocation of rights and resources, resistance, and transformation. 

New research has overturned assumptions about why young Mexican men are vulnerable to recruitment into violent gangs, with implications for government policy. 

New modelling explores the medium-term macroeconomic impact of the COVID pandemic in low-income countries and shows the need for significant and sustained concessional external financing to reverse loss-of-learning effects on labour productivity.