Despite ambitious policies and well-intended programmes, food security and nutrition challenges persist around the world and ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

What are the new businesses being established in the small towns of Zimbabwe? As the last blog has illustrated our long-term study of Mvurwi, Chatsworth and Maphisa shows a variety of changes, with ...

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 ...

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