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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

MA Power, Participation & Social Change alum Bruna Viana de Freitas answers questions about her experience of studying her master’s at IDS.

In this podcast Rob D. van den Berg talks about the issues in his new book Evidence for Hope: The Emerging Sustainability Revolution.

Food is a cross-cutting development issue that concerns hunger, food insecurity, malnutrition, environment sustainability and power.

Pedro Sanches de Frias, currently studying MSc Climate Change is one of the first students taking part in a double master’s programme.