This paper investigates the sudden 2019 termination by the United States Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) of trade with India as a quasi-natural experiment. Given the re-election of Donald ...

Evidence suggests that the world is becoming increasingly volatile in the face of complex and interconnected challenges. It is also clear that we are failing to achieve key climate and development ...

One of the most common discussions amongst those living in the land reform areas today focuses on how will the next generation get land. Those who got the land during the land reform in 2000 are now ...

This resource guide from the Knowledge for Development and Diplomacy programme (K4DD) is designed to provide the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) staff and other ...

Despite ambitious policies and well-intended programmes, food security and nutrition challenges persist around the world and ...

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

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

Nutrition surveillance – or the systematic and periodic collection of information on nutrition – is vital to the capacity of governments and other agencies to track their progress towards reducing ...

Discussing the latest ideas shaping development. This podcast series explores ground-breaking ideas in development for positive social and environmental change. Each month we feature an interview with ...

Simon Maxwell, IDS Emeritus Fellow writes a tribute to Jeremy Swift who passed away in December and was an IDS Fellow for many years.

IDS works with global partners to generate new knowledge and evidence to identify the underlying causes of inequalities and poverty in all their dimensions and the progressive policies and practices ...

Our vision is for a more equitable and sustainable world, where people everywhere can live their lives free from poverty and injustice. Collaborate across sciences, sectors and communities to do ...