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IDS In Focus Policy BriefingIDS In Focus explores research and analysis from different research teams at the Institute of Development Studies.

Priorities for Accelerating Progress on the MDGs (Special Issue)

By learning from country experience in implementing the MDGs, a clear set of priorities to help accelerate progress towards 2015 has emerged. 

IDS In Focus Policy Briefing (Special issue)

These two ministerial briefings focus on the 'tobin tax' and 'markets, services poor people'.

The Political Economy of Climate Change and Development (Issue 20)

Climate Change financing initiatives are an increasingly prominent part of international development activities, through mechanisms both inside and outside the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

Integrating Business for Development Impact (Issue 19)

Businesses are increasingly setting up programmes to engage with international development. Development agencies are also seeking to mobilise businesses’ knowledge and resources to achieve development goals.

Making Basic Education Free (Issue 18)

User fees are widely seen as one of the main obstacles to improving school enrolment rates in developing countries, especially among poor people.

Designing Social Protection as an Effective and Sustainable Investment (Issue 17)

Social Protection is a dynamic and innovative reponse to poverty and vulnerability. How can what is 'good' practice be transformed into common practice? Mainstreaming good practice will alllow more poor people to benefit from social protection programmes that are succesful and sustainable.

The New Bottom Billion and the MDGs (Issue 16)

A Plan of Action. New estimates place three-quarters of the world's 1.3bn or so poor people in middle-income countries (MICs) such as India, China, Nigeria, Pakistan and Indonesia, and only a quarter live in low-income countries (LICs), largely in Africa.

Climate Change and Conflict (Issue 15)

Moving Beyond the Impasse. It is time for a more measured view of vulnerability to climate change and a better understanding of the causes of conflict.

Tackling Instability in Financial Markets with a Panic Tax (Issue 14)

Evidence suggests that a Tobin Tax might not actually reduce volatility in markets. A better solution might be a Panic Tax.

Children in a Changing Climate (Issue 13)

Lessons from Research and Practice

Making the Case for Aid (Issue 12)

The Challenge of UK Public Perceptions

Redistribution and Beyond (Issue 11)

Exploring the Basics: The briefings collectively pose a challenge to main-stream development policy thinking, a challenge that the authors believe is particularly urgent and relevant at a time of global economic crisis.

Triggering a Revolution in Rural Sanitation (Issue 10) 

Beyond Subsidies: Community-led Total Sanitation (ClTS) is a radically different approach to rural sanitation and has shown promising successes where traditional rural sanitation programmes have failed.

Promoting Pro-poor Policy After the MDGs (Issue 9) 

After 2015: As we enter an era characterised by global uncertainties such as climate change and the global economic crisis, what has been the impact of the MDGs model and how can we accelerate progress on poverty reduction through such turbulent times?

China and Development (issue 8) 

Lessons for and from the World: Explores China's rise and its possible implications for international development and low income countries, in overview and across a series of specific areas (healthcare, low-carbon growth and sexuality).

Global Financial Crisis (issue 7) 

Policy Responses to how it will affect developing countries and what should policy responses be. 

Changing the Aid for Trade Debate towards Content (Issue 6) 

Exports from developing countries, especially from sub-Saharan Africa, continue to be concentrated in few commodities, and diversification into new exports and markets remains poor.

Building Responsive States (Issue 5)

Citizen Action and National Policy Change. Positive examples of citizen action and highlights how government, donors and civil society organisations can help citizens bring about pro-poor national policy change.

Men, Sex and HIV (Issue4) 

Directions for Politicising Masculinities. Gender inequalities are shaping how the HIV epidemic evolves and in order to engage men as 'part of the solution' we must deal with issues of male power.

Concern for the Bottom Billion (Issue 3) 

Exploring the strengths and weaknesses of the policies advocated in Paul Collier's controversial and influential book The Bottom Billion.

Climate Change Adaptation (Issue 2)

Comprises eight two-page briefing notes on research to reduce vulnerability and poverty in a changing climate. 

Social Protection through a Livelihoods Lens (Issue 1)

Social protection thinking and practice have taken several new directions.


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