A decade ago, a group of us published a Special Issue of the journal World Development discussing the results of collaborative research undertaken through the ESRC-funded ‘China and Brazil in African ...

When Donald Trump stood on the White House lawn in April 2025 holding a large, laminated poster announcing the first round of trade tariffs to be imposed on different countries, the Trade Policy ...

Over the past two decades, lower-income countries, donors, and international organisations have devoted considerable effort to strengthening lower-income countries’ capacity to tax cross-border ...

A South Asian student gives their view on climate change and living in London during the record-breaking heatwave.

If climate policy is to become more grounded, more inclusive and more effective, the challenge is not only to improve the ...

How policymakers, practitioners, and researchers can ensure that nature recovery, food, and farming deliver ecological and ...

More than forty years ago, Madonna claimed in her massive, generation-defining hit that ‘we are living in a material world’. Today, as the global scramble for critical minerals intensifies – driven by ...

Last week, the UK House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee met to hear evidence into the UK’s engagement with the multilateral system. The Committee invited IDS Senior Research ...

Join this seminar in which experts look at critical minerals and development: Breaking the structural impasse.

Accountability is now a buzzword in contemporary development debates. It is central to development policy, whether government accountability (as a central component of good governance), corporate ...

This report synthesises learning from these audits and is part of a larger project that focuses on understanding the links between sexuality, gender plurality and poverty with the aim of improving ...