A new IDS archive Bulletin – Environmental Change, Development Challenges – Revisited – has just been released.

This IDS Bulletin looks at past articles on environmental change and development challenges over the last 30 years.

A System in Flux Since 2015, the social assistance system in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) has been largely inactive due to fiscal constraints, political instability, and administrative ...

The stop order on USAID is damaging critical humanitarian and development work around the world, says Peter Taylor, Director ...

New research from the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) provides crucial insights into the challenges and ...

This brief examines the politics of social protection amid ongoing financial crisis in Lebanon. It finds that Lebanon’s political settlement remains characterised by sectarian-clientelism and ...

This working paper explores the contemporary politics of social assistance (and social protection more broadly) in Lebanon, filling multiple gaps in existing academic and policy literature on ...

What are the new businesses being established in the small towns of Zimbabwe? As the last blog has illustrated our long-term study of Mvurwi, Chatsworth and Maphisa shows a variety of changes, with ...

The launch of this global initiative was one of three priorities of the Brazilian G20 Presidency. There is no world leader ...

This policy brief argues that one of the tools that LIC governments have at their disposal is particularly under-utilised – taxing the wealthy more effectively.

This paper examines the political economy of the agricultural policy processes in Malawi through the lenses of the fertilizer subsidy programme that has raised the profile of the country on the ...

This background paper focuses on the potential role that international science and technology ‘foresight-type’ activities might play in informing decision-making processes about innovation, ...