Poverty is bad for everyone. With millions around the world struggling to make ends meet and increased socioeconomic uncertainty making poverty a more probable prospect for many more, tackling poverty has never been more urgent. Watch now https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsvlCGa1avY Yet,...
Silvia Masiero’s new book Unfair-ID critically examines the claims that Digital-ID advances international development goals. Based on a decade of empirical research in India she uses a ‘data justice’ lens to analyse examples of digital exclusion as well as cases of ‘adverse...
When a massive Chinese factory complex attempts a high-stakes expansion in rural Ethiopia, three women in search of prosperity have their faith in industrialization tested to the limit. Join us for a screening of award-winning documentary 'Made in Ethiopia', exploring the realities of...
China and Global Development Seminar Series
The talk will go though some of the pivotal moments in my book just released from Cambridge University Press. Through the India-China Border: Kalimpong in the Himalayas mobilizes rarely used documentary material from British, Chinese and Indian archives to shed new light on our understanding of...
This workshop is aimed at tax experts and non-tax practitioners engaging in the negotiations of the protocols of the United Nations Framework Convention on International Tax. Join the IDS-based International Centre for Tax and Development and the International Institute for Sustainable...
In conversation with Antonia Mulvey, Founder and Executive Director of Legal Action Worldwide (LAW). Watch now https://youtu.be/j4jzTRzMeqs Speaker Antonia, a British lawyer, is specialised in international human rights law, international criminal law and refugee law, with over 20 years of...
Understanding and advancing how evidence can be used to inform decisions to improve people’s lives is a crucial priority for IDS. This is especially important for evidence-led solutions that need to balance between social, economic, and environmental domains to achieve sustainability. In...
Join the Institute of Development Studies for our annual event to examine prospects for a recasting of development around the world. Watch now https://www.youtube.com/live/xDvRRAQnoio During 2024 inequality continued to grow, the world experienced its hottest year ever, the war on Gaza...
Pathways to Development is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together empirical and historical research by economists, political scientists, sociologists, legal and constitutional scholars, and law and policy reform experts, within and outside Pakistan, to document and describe the...
Uncertainties are everywhere. Whether it’s climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technologies, we don’t know what the future will hold. For many contemporary challenges, navigating uncertainty – where we cannot predict what may happen – is essential. But how is...
Governments across the African continent are investing heavily in digital transformation and have made huge progress in the past decade. Many core functions such as tax filing and payment are fully digitised in many contexts. The development of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) has been key to...
The global expansion of authoritarian rule is witnessing a brand of development that is intensifying processes of social polarisation and growing inequalities. In engaging with these pressing issues of our times, this webinar brings together grassroots activists and development...
