This rapid summary of evidence was prepared by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) as a background briefing paper to inform a panel event and discussion: ‘Opposition and Resistance to Clean ...

Digital public infrastructure holds great potential in strengthening increasingly digitalised tax administration, but important questions persist on how to fully unlock this potential for governments ...

has emerged around their relative efficacy. Some commentators see diversity as a continued source of strength, positioning foundations to address the complexity, contingency and negotiated nature of ...

The Living Off-Grid and Infrastructure Collaboration (LOGIC) launches its new website today, exploring the relationship between infrastructure, food security and nutrition across five cities in South ...

As the Navigating Uncertainty book shows, the politics of risk are centred on calculative, technocratic control, where we assume we can predict, model and manage. A politics of uncertainty by contrast ...

If the world is to achieve universal coverage of safely managed sanitation services by 2030, governments and supporting partners must operate at scale, expanding services for the majority, alongside ...

Sanitation and hygiene issues often deal with uncomfortable, hidden and sometimes taboo areas of life, which people don’t want to talk about publicly, let alone look at. It can be profoundly powerful ...

IDS has partnered with Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (FGV EAESP) on a double master’s programme, offering ...

Today’s youth generation holds a large stake in the future of sustainable agrifood systems worldwide. Youth are recognised as ...

This article examines how neoliberal reforms mediate and influence relationships between emergent powers and African nations centred on agricultural development. It investigates the impact of South- ...

This review of the evidence on sexuality and poverty is undertaken by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) as part of a larger Accountable Grant from the UK Government’s Department for ...

World renowned economist, Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College ...