In the public sector, Spain has made big efforts not to lag behind digital leaders in terms of public e-readiness and e-government, but the country’s economic and political frameworks have dragged it ...

IDS is honoured to welcome the Hon. Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Dr Harini Amarasuriya to mark the 60th anniversary of IDS. Join this event to hear Dr Harini Amarasuriya share her journey from her ...

Taxation is a central part of a new era of development that has fiscal resilience, system change and people at its core.

Next week we’re delighted to welcome the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Dr Harini Amarasuriya, to mark the 60th anniversary of IDS. Sri Lanka offers a positive story about democratic renewal, which in ...

The Trump–Xi summit in Beijing should not be read as a great-power settlement between Washington and Beijing. Nor should it ...

The death of Dr Kamal Kar, pioneer of Community-Led Total Sanitation, on May 3 has been devastating for all the people around ...

Using the case study of the Kibera slums, this paper takes a medical anthropological approach to discuss and explain the untold and common practice among the urban poor in developing countries that is ...

This paper examines the political economy of the agricultural policy processes in Malawi through the lenses of the fertilizer subsidy programme that has raised the profile of the country on the ...

This report synthesises learning from these audits and is part of a larger project that focuses on understanding the links between sexuality, gender plurality and poverty with the aim of improving ...

In this paper we analyse how new actors, interests, and resources become salient to food system governance and how the domain of food system governance transforms as a result. Specifically, we focus ...