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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many students come to IDS with aspirations of a career in the UN system. A recent event at IDS gave both students and alumni ...

A new blog which looks at reimagining social assistance in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and the vital role of local organisations.

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

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

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 ...