Many students come to IDS with aspirations of a career in the UN system. A recent event at IDS gave both students and alumni ...

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 ...

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

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.

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

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

When a massive Chinese factory complex attempts a high-stakes expansion in rural Ethiopia, three women in search of prosperity have their faith in industrialization tested to the limit. Image: Max ...

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 UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer says we should be mainlining AI directly into every part of government and the economy.

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 ...