Tackling the pressing environmental, social and economic challenges of our era will require increased international cooperation across countries, sectors and disciplines. Both the UN Global Goals and China’s multi-billion dollar BRI which spans over 70 countries in Asia, Africa, Latin...
Elinor Ostrom was the first and so far only woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics. Her innovative work on ecological economics challenged the notion of ‘the tragedy of the commons’. Her political economy analysis, focusing on trust, cooperation, diversity, deep democracy and innovative...
Speaker Dan Carden MP, Shadow Secretary of State for International Development https://www.facebook.com/idsuk/videos/851780745165500/ This lecture is part of the Sussex Development Lecture series: Achieving the SDGs: Synergies and Tensions. This lecture will be streamed live to the...
In the run up to this year’s Sussex Refugees Tales Walk and as we approach World Refugee Day, the Lewes Organisation in Support of Refugees and Asylum Seekers (LOSRAS) in collaboration with the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) will host a public meeting to showcase locally produced...
In When Things Don’t Fall Apart, Ilene Grabel makes a simple but controversial claim, based on the work of the eminent social scientist Albert O. Hirschman. Grabel argues that as concerns global financial governance and development finance we are now in a period that she calls productive...
–between the lines– podcast series
In this episode of --between the lines-- IDS researcher, Richard Longhurst, speaks to Hilary Cottam about her book: 'Radical Help: how we can remake the relationships between us and revolutionise the welfare state.' Radical Help is about new ways of organising living and growing that have been...
Heralded with much fanfare and preceded by intensive policy contestation, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) agreed in September 2015 promises a far-reaching development framework in a global context of widening inequalities within and between countries, economic crises, conflict,...
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to vastly improve economic, social and planetary well-being. How exactly to achieve these goals is now a point of discussion at many fora around the world. A crucial aspect of implementation is the fact that the goals are strongly interconnected...
–between the lines– podcast series
In this episode of --between the lines-- IDS researcher and co-director of the STEPS Centre, Ian Scoones, talks to colleague Marina Apgar about his book, Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development, part of a series of small books for big ideas. The book looks at the role of social...
The SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) potentially offer an inclusive, integrated approach to development, centred on social justice, for all of humanity. But how are they being implemented in practice? Too often a piece-meal, sectoral approach is adopted, rooted in modernist assumptions of...
Bangladesh has been well known as both a poor as well as climate vulnerable country for several decades. However the country is now well on the path to graduate out of Least Developed Country status and also towards becoming a climate resilient country. In this lecture Saleemul shares some...
Evidence into Policy and Practice Series
There has been a rapid growth in funding focused on evidence use and initiatives designed to strengthen the links between research and policy. Lately, this field has become increasingly cognisant of the social and interactive nature of evidence into policy processes. Watch the...