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 ...

In early 2024 the UK government introduced legislation requiring that when housing or infrastructure development occurs in ...

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 ...

Young people’s urban lives are often riddled with inequalities and everyday obstacles inhibiting their full societal participation, to negatively affect their health and wellbeing. Findings from a ...

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.

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 ...

This paper examines how communities along the Somalia–Kenya border navigate a landscape of war. Over decades of conflict local people have relied on their own means of governance and mutual support to ...