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 ...

Taking Syria as a country case study from 2011–24 when the Assad regime fell, this paper assesses whether existing social protection programmes – notably consumption subsidies, pensions, and the ...

This briefing note explores what happened to social protection in Syria in the months that followed the fall of the Assad regime. It identifies spaces for social protection reform and rehabilitation.

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 ...

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 ...

Last year I wrote a ‘long read’ Insights piece for The Conversation drawing on my book, Navigating Uncertainty, and highlighting some of the case studies where inspiration can be drawn in addressing ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...