This policy brief summarises what we know about simplified taxes in Africa, who pays them, and why they matter, while highlighting gaps in existing knowledge.

Our research has shown how land reform has driven the growth in small towns, creating new economic linkages in a reconfigured economic geography of the country. No longer are the metropolitan centres ...

Workforce Nutrition Programmes (WNPs) can improve the health of workers, but with mixed results for a business case—which is crucial to their sustainability. This paper thus explores impact pathways ...

New research from the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) provides crucial insights into the challenges and ...

The stop order on USAID is damaging critical humanitarian and development work around the world, says Peter Taylor, Director ...

This IDS Bulletin looks at past articles on environmental change and development challenges over the last 30 years.

Lucas dos Santos Miranda, MA Globalisation, Business & Development student, joined IDS as part of a double master’s programme ...

This brief examines the politics of social protection amid ongoing financial crisis in Lebanon. It finds that Lebanon’s political settlement remains characterised by sectarian-clientelism and ...

The launch of this global initiative was one of three priorities of the Brazilian G20 Presidency. There is no world leader ...

A new blog which looks at reimagining social assistance in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and the vital role of local organisations.

This working paper explores the contemporary politics of social assistance (and social protection more broadly) in Lebanon, filling multiple gaps in existing academic and policy literature on ...

A new IDS archive Bulletin – Environmental Change, Development Challenges – Revisited – has just been released.