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 ...

IDS researchers and PhD candidates are out in force presenting at this year’s Development Studies Association (DSA) conference – the biggest of its kind in Europe – and which takes place in Dublin ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is the launch of the 'Comparative Perspectives on International Tax from the Global South' project, started by ICTD in 2024 ...

This review of the evidence on sexuality and poverty is undertaken by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) as part of a larger Accountable Grant from the UK Government’s Department for ...

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