Digital public infrastructure (DPI) holds great potential in strengthening increasingly digitalised tax administration, but important questions persist on how to fully unlock this potential for governments in low-income countries. Drawing from their work under recently concluded DIGITAX...
22 October 2024
The Living Off-Grid and Infrastructure Collaboration (LOGIC) launches its new website today, exploring the relationship between infrastructure, food security and nutrition across five cities in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. LOGIC researchers found many examples of food’s fundamental...
21 October 2024
World renowned economist, Mariana Mazzucato, Professor in the Economics of Innovation and Public Value at University College London (UCL) will be the guest speaker for this year’s IDS Annual Lecture. Professor Mazzucato will deliver the lecture on ‘Rethinking growth: making economies...
17 October 2024
IDS has partnered with Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo (FGV EAESP) on a double master’s programme, offering students the opportunity to study for a year at IDS to supplement a first year studying for a master’s in Brazil. IDS has enjoyed a long-standing relationship...
16 October 2024
In a series of policy briefs published for the T20, researchers from IDS and other Food Equity Centre partners have outlined policy options for strengthening equity food systems and their governance, and preventing hunger and famine. The policy briefs will feed into recommendations...
16 October 2024
Extreme heat, altered rain patterns, and flooding events, amplified by climate change, are changing the nature of 24-hour risk cycles faced by low-income neighbourhoods and informal settlements in the urban global South. In cities such as Karachi (Pakistan) and Nairobi (Kenya), climatic changes...
3 October 2024
We are pleased to announce the launch of the Knowledge for Development and Diplomacy (K4DD) programme. K4DD is providing the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) with knowledge, evidence and learning designed to support development and diplomacy programmes and...
30 September 2024
Twenty-two tax and finance professionals mostly from countries across Africa successfully completed the last module for the Research on Tax and Development course of the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD), based in IDS, in Accra earlier this month.
26 September 2024
Sir Hans Singer, who is famed for his work on development economics and a former professor at the Institute of Development Studies, has been commemorated by his hometown in Germany. Commemorative sign The city of Wuppertal in Germany honoured the renowned economist at a ceremony last...
23 September 2024
A five-year study with child workers in Bangladesh’s growing leather industry has uncovered children working in dangerous and harmful conditions at every stage of leather processing and production, driven by the need to support their families financially. Children as young as eight,...
20 September 2024
The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) has published our Annual Review 2023-24, highlighting the progress we have made towards our vision of a more equitable and sustainable world. Read the Annual Review 2023-24 IDS Board Chair Deepak Nayyar said: “The need for world-class...
4 September 2024
IDS is thrilled to announce that we will be attending the Global Evidence Summit (GES) as a programme partner for the first time this year. This quadrennial event is a unique platform designed to facilitate collaboration and partnership across various sectors, with the shared goal of driving...
29 August 2024
