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Fifty years post war, Vietnam’s future for economic success

The busy streets of Hanoi are full of Vietnamese flags and many people dressed in military attire to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of Vietnam War (or the American War as it is sometimes called in Vietnam). With celebrations across the country, an estimated 13,000 people attended the...

Ayako Ebata

9 May 2025

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The Indian government’s weaponisation of gender in Operation Sindoor

The Indian government’s military response to the Pahalgam terror attack which killed 26 civilians in Indian occupied Kashmir was disguised as a ‘military retaliation’ - a war for peace. In the early hours of May 7, 2025, the Indian army launched Operation Sindoor in Pakistan and...

Jigyasa Agarwal

9 May 2025

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Familiar territory: Coming back to IDS after 35 years

Dr Sepali Kottegoda - Director Programmes, Gender and Political Economy at Women and Media Collective, Sri Lanka and IDS alum (MPhil class of 1984 and DPhil class of 1990) - recently came back to IDS to deliver a guest lecture on exploring unpaid care in Sri Lanka. While she was with us, we...

Dr Sepali Kottegoda, Director Programmes, Gender and Political Economy, Women and Media Collective

8 May 2025

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Climate under threat: A call for more action

Shortly after his inauguration, President Donald Trump announced a series of climate measures with major ramifications: he passed an order to withdraw from the Paris Agreement and dismantled a host of federal government climate action measures. Other like-minded leaders are poised to take...

Seife Ayele

6 May 2025

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Global challenges need collective action: Why bright spots matter

Anxiety and uncertainty are core features of global development cooperation at the moment. Previous opinion pieces have highlighted the colossal fall-out of the termination of USAID, against a backdrop of declining ODA contributions. The news since the start of 2025 has felt unrelentingly bleak....

Peter Taylor

6 May 2025

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Success in a livestock-based economy: the case of land reform sites in Matobo district, Zimbabwe

What does success mean in a livestock-based economy? How has land reform influenced what success is possible in a dryland, marginal area? To explore these questions, we carried out success rankings in our two A1 sites in Matobo district. In one village 6 women and 5 men attended, while in the...

Ian Scoones

6 May 2025

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What does solidarity mean in practice?

I was coming out of a lecture that I was giving to IDS masters’ students on struggles against anti-gender backlash by women’s groups when I saw the news: 15 Palestinian medical workers brutally killed and buried in a mass grave by Israel. My blood boiled, and I wished that I could do...

Deepta Chopra

30 April 2025

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What is ‘success’ in Zimbabwe’s land reform areas?

What constitutes ‘success’ if you have land in the A1 land reform areas in Zimbabwe? This is the question we have been asking of local residents across our study sites in Mazowe, Gutu, Masvingo and Matobo districts. We have held 11 workshops in different sites, involving around 208 people...

Ian Scoones

28 April 2025

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Four essential tools (and skills) to use evidence effectively

As we navigate a deeply uncertain global environment, in which the rules-based order is being abandoned, the stakes have never been higher for taking an evidence-informed approach to policy and implementation. All those who seek to inform policy and interventions with evidence are under...

James Georgalakis

28 April 2025

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With aid declining, FfD4 must include concrete commitment to scale up investment in tax systems

I recently took part in the third high-level symposium of the UNDP’s Finance, Integrity and Governance Initiative with experts and negotiators involved in the Financing for Development (FfD4) process. The symposium focused on domestic resource mobilisation (DRM), the primary source of...

Giulia Mascagni

25 April 2025

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Deadly childbirths: the need to invest in maternal healthcare in Afghanistan

One woman dies in Afghanistan every two hours while trying to give birth and 167 children die in Afghanistan from preventable causes every day. In this bleak context, IDS alumna Tanjila Mazumder Drishti shares more about the dire state of care for pregnant women in Afghanistan and why it is...

Tanjila Mazumder Drishti, Regional Lead - Asia at Global Resource Mobilization and Partnerships, BRAC International

24 April 2025

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Livelihood bricoleurs: young people composing livelihoods in post-land reform Zimbabwe

To conclude this series and give a flavour of some of the themes explored across the previous nine blogs, this post presents a series of five cases offering in-depth reflections on how livelihoods are composed across a range of activities and in response to a variety of challenges. The cases...

Ian Scoones

23 April 2025

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Fifty years post war, Vietnam’s future for economic success

The Indian government’s weaponisation of gender in Operation Sindoor

Familiar territory: Coming back to IDS after 35 years

Climate under threat: A call for more action

Global challenges need collective action: Why bright spots matter

Success in a livestock-based economy: the case of land reform sites in Matobo district, Zimbabwe

What does solidarity mean in practice?

What is ‘success’ in Zimbabwe’s land reform areas?

Four essential tools (and skills) to use evidence effectively

With aid declining, FfD4 must include concrete commitment to scale up investment in tax systems

Deadly childbirths: the need to invest in maternal healthcare in Afghanistan

Livelihood bricoleurs: young people composing livelihoods in post-land reform Zimbabwe

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