Earlier this month, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif's government presented the Federal Budget for the 2025-2026 fiscal year which allocated nearly 50% of the budget to debt servicing alone while severing subsidies - with a 13% cut on power sector subsidies - and announcing plans to broaden the...
2 July 2025
In recognition of outstanding research, the Centre for Social Work Innovation and Research (CSWIR) recently presented awards to Postgraduate Researchers (PGRs) and Early Career Researchers (ECRs) across the University of Sussex. Diana Ramirez Sarmiento and Sunisha Neupane, both PhD researchers...
2 July 2025
The development sector proclaims that it values dignity. Yet it often breaks this promise, with people leaving encounters with charities feeling bruised and unseen. In this podcast, drawn from a recent lecture at IDS, research fellow Marina Apgar is in conversation with Tom Wein from the...
26 June 2025
IDS researchers are out in force this year presenting at this years Development Studies Association (DSA) conference – the biggest of its kind in Europe – and which takes place at the University of Bath from the 25 to 27 June. The theme of the conference this year is Navigating crisis:...
23 June 2025
As global challenges in clean energy adoption intensify, a compelling conversation unfolded during a virtual panel event, “Powering Change: Women, Youth, and the Clean Energy Revolution,” bringing to the forefront the urgent need to prioritise gender and youth inclusion in the clean energy...
17 June 2025
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has been awarded four pioneering research projects funded through the British Academy. The funding is part of a programme that aims to enhance the use of evidence in policymaking for addressing critical global development...
6 June 2025
In a landmark gathering aimed at redefining the future of global health, over 50 experts, practitioners, and advocates convened at the Salzburg Global Seminar in October 2024. The session, titled "Centring on Equity: Transforming the Health Science Knowledge System," culminated in the release of...
3 June 2025
The International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD), based at the Institute of Development Studies, is launching a Community of Practice (CoP) on Informality and Tax, a global network of practitioners and scholars committed to improving both knowledge and policy on how tax authorities engage...
28 May 2025
A new study of innovative, grassroots food projects in cities across the world - filling the gap left by insufficient state support for those in food insecurity - suggests that they provide more dignity and choice than standard foodbank models. The projects all made efforts to replicate a...
22 May 2025
As Palestinians today mark the 77th anniversary of the Nakba – the expulsion of Palestinian Arabs from their homeland in 1948 – IDS researchers share their commentary on the current siege of Gaza by Israel. Since the ceasefire collapsed in March 2025, Israel has blocked any...
15 May 2025
Digital accessibility is a prominent topic this year, highlighting the importance of creating and sharing content that is perceivable, operable and understandable by all users. More often than not the focus is on forthcoming legislation, such as the European Accessibility Act which will come...
15 May 2025
A new initiative called NOURISH has been established to find a new way of working to achieve equitable wellbeing for all. The initiative comprises of a collective of people from around the world, including Brazil, New Zealand, UK, Canada and Sweden, who are practitioners, researchers and...
8 May 2025
