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

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 ...

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

Resilience has, in the past four decades, been a term increasingly employed throughout a number of sciences: psychology and ecology, most prominently. Increasingly one finds it in political science, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The National Policy for Children 2013 adopted by the Government of India in April 2013, adheres to the Constitutional mandate and guiding principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of ...

Dietary diversity is associated with household or individual food availability and intake of nutrients from different food groups and is an important component of nutritional outcome. This study ...

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 ...

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