Understanding the interaction between tax expenditures and gender-based inequalities is essential to ensure that the tax ...

The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has published our 2023-24 Annual Review highlighting the progress we have made towards our vision.

This is the first study of digital social protection from the perspective of informal marginalised workers in Africa. The right to decent work including social protection is guaranteed to all citizens ...

Whether it’s climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technologies, we don’t know what the future will hold. Uncertainties are everywhere. But how can we navigate them ...

Over the last year worsening crises continue to affect the lives and livelihoods of millions of people globally.

The future of any young child conceived today in one of the under-serviced areas of a South African city demands that we act on food insecurity now, and act with urgency and initiative seldom seen in ...

Extreme heat, altered precipitation patterns, and flooding events, exacerbated by climate change, are changing the nature of 24-hour risk cycles faced by low-income neighbourhoods and informal ...

This paper presents the findings from an embedded theory-based evaluation of a participatory peace-building initiative implemented in the Kangaba region of Mali as part of the ‘Vestibule of Peace’ ...

The relationship between infrastructure development and intensifying climate crisis is generating new cycles of 24-hour risks in the urban global South. These risks are particularly severe in ...

The Bangladesh national elections in January 2024 had dashed any hopes for political reform as the Awami League party’s power ...