This note examines views of different actors in Nigeria on whether and how social assistance should be used to help households negatively affected by these shocks.

Across the African continent, professional qualification is perceived as a panacea for youth employment, particularly if the ...

After weeks of mounting demonstrations in Madagascar, Gen Z Mada social movement has mobilised to bring about change.

The Sanctuary for Health Justice, based at the Institute of Development Studies in Brighton, UK, will provide a welcoming ...

Despite its potential to provide councils with independent financial resources, Sri Lanka's rate assessment system remains underutilized.

Join us for this special Sussex Development Lecture in which Dr Suraj Milind Yengde will talk about this book Caste: A Global ...

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 ...

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, ...

IDS students from the MA Gender and Development programme share insights from their own national contexts, highlighting how ...

The taxation of the wealthy represents one of the key challenges for tax professionals and policymakers across the world, ...

This paper explores the evolving politics that shape international aid agendas and social assistance delivery in contexts of protracted crises.

This policy brief reviews why the ‘goldmine argument’ - related to the taxation of informal economies - is false.