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 ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Poor countries are reeling from the sudden and wide-ranging US aid cuts. Among the worst affected is South Sudan, a poor country which gained independence in July 2011. South Sudan relies on ...