The Trump–Xi summit in Beijing should not be read as a great-power settlement between Washington and Beijing. Nor should it ...

Taxation is a central part of a new era of development that has fiscal resilience, system change and people at its core.

Next week we’re delighted to welcome the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Dr Harini Amarasuriya, to mark the 60th anniversary of IDS. Sri Lanka offers a positive story about democratic renewal, which in ...

The death of Dr Kamal Kar, pioneer of Community-Led Total Sanitation, on May 3 has been devastating for all the people around ...

To make Responsible Business Conduct effective in low- and middle-income countries targeted investment and sector-specific ...

Amid several initiatives to reset the agenda and forge new global partnerships for development cooperation, we need to remember what was learned in the past and reorientate towards the agendas and ...

Vocational and technical education is often praised because of its usefulness to young people finding immediate employment and its integration with local labour markets. But in West Africa, formal ...

This blog post was written collectively by Bengali and South Asian students at the Institute of Development Studies, to mark ...

IDS alum Aimen Bucha recently visited IDS and delivered a guest lecture sharing insights from her SuPWR research and her ...

International trade is one of the most powerful systems that influences how economies are structured, how labour markets ...

The geopolitical consensus that prioritised the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is shifting amid political and economic ...

Counters critiques of theories of change and outlines principles for good theory of change practice to strengthen use in most situations ...