Identifying and reducing children’s harmful work in African agriculture is the aim of a new project led by the Institute of Development Studies and partners, announced today. Awarded £8.3million over seven years, the research programme will initially focus on children and their families...
16 October 2019
Vulnerable coastal areas of South Asia face a ‘perfect storm’ of increasing climate uncertainties combined with threats to livelihoods from inequality, industrial development and marginalisation, according to an international team of researchers working with local partners in India and...
20 September 2019
In response to report from Cambodian human rights groups LICADHO and Sahmakum Teang Tnaut (STT) highlighting how microfinance loans designed to help the poorest in Cambodia are actually leaving them in greater debt or forced to sell land, IDS research fellow and microfinance expert Phil Mader...
8 August 2019
Report by Tearfund, Fauna & Flora International (FFI), the Institute of Development Studies and WasteAid highlights stark health impacts of plastic pollution and rubbish on the world’s poorest people.
14 May 2019
IDS responds to Taxpayers' Alliance report that calls for the UK to reduce its aid spending through multilateral institutions
18 March 2019
University of Sussex has been awarded a Wellcome Trust grant of over £400,000 to improve the accessibility of the British Library of Development Studies (BLDS) will be jointly managed with the Institute of Development Studies.
13 March 2019
A major new IDS research project on trust and global governance has been launched with £2.3m of funding from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).
11 March 2019
IDS researchers at this year's Commission on the Status of Women highlight limitations of cash transfers in achivieving women's empowerment if not linked to adequate public services or infrastructure
11 March 2019
The University of Sussex is number one in the world for development studies for the third consecutive year in the QS World University Rankings by Subject. The rankings once again put Sussex top, above Harvard and Oxford. Sussex has now been number one for development studies for four out of...
27 February 2019
In response to continuing coverage of the Ebola Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) where there have been 823 confirmed and probable cases reported (as of 12th February 2019, with 517 people dying and 280 recovered), Professor Melissa Leach, Director, Institute of Development...
14 February 2019
On February 5-7th, the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) is holding its seventh annual meeting in association with the Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA). This comes at a time when taxation is high on the agenda for policymakers as a central means of financing sustainable...
4 February 2019
IDS researchers and knowledge professionals will be working with partners in four of the 12 UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Global Research Hubs announced today by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and UKRI. Over the next five years they will contribute to...
22 January 2019
