When Donald Trump stood on the White House lawn in April 2025 holding a large, laminated poster announcing the first round of trade tariffs to be imposed on different countries, the Trade Policy ...

A decade ago, a group of us published a Special Issue of the journal World Development discussing the results of collaborative research undertaken through the ESRC-funded ‘China and Brazil in African ...

A South Asian student gives their view on climate change and living in London during the record-breaking heatwave.

If climate policy is to become more grounded, more inclusive and more effective, the challenge is not only to improve the ...

Over the past two decades, lower-income countries, donors, and international organisations have devoted considerable effort to strengthening lower-income countries’ capacity to tax cross-border ...

How policymakers, practitioners, and researchers can ensure that nature recovery, food, and farming deliver ecological and ...

Last week, the UK House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee met to hear evidence into the UK’s engagement with the multilateral system. The Committee invited IDS Senior Research ...

Over the past two decades, lower-income countries, donors, and international organisations have devoted considerable effort to strengthening lower-income countries’ capacity to tax cross-border ...

Join this seminar in which experts look at critical minerals and development: Breaking the structural impasse.

This review of the evidence on sexuality and poverty is undertaken by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) as part of a larger Accountable Grant from the UK Government’s Department for ...

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