The changing geo-political landscape has shifted focus from generalised normative preferences in trade policy towards more realist goals that seek to create the best advantage for a country under ...

The cuts to ODA budgets have severe consequences for climate change projects around the world, warns experts at IDS.

IDS graduates Callum Chapman and Norma Jean Park (MA Food & Development, Class of 2024) were lead authors on an IDS Working ...

Urban areas are critical for human development. They are often viewed as key places for the pursuit of economic growth, for addressing epidemics, for modern day warfare, or for adapting to and ...

The future of funding for global health programmes like those detecting and treating HIV/Aids are in peril after funding cuts.

How do we build economic systems that recognise and work within the biophysical limits of our finite planet while reducing poverty and inequality? This has become a defining question of our time.

Our studies of young people across our A1 land reform sites in Zimbabwe show the real challenges that young people face in getting established as independent economic actors. This requires putting ...

The aid cuts could not have come at a worse time. The implementation of Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS), signed by President Salva Kiir ...

Notions of ‘progress’ pervade the modern world. Yet, ‘north’ and ‘south’ alike, policymaking for progress in innovation, sustainability and development tends to be ambiguous. Politicians speak of “the ...