Opinions

Opinion

Land and tenure in Zimbabwe’s communal areas: why land reform was needed

Opinion

Economic chaos is causing a food security and humanitarian crisis in Zimbabwe

Opinion

Youth and inter-generational mediation of cultural heritage

For the sake of preservation of heritage under threat, engaging young people is key to sustainability, but we need to think creatively how to bring them on board, argues Mariz Tadros. On the face of it, heritage preservation may conjure images associated with the old - that which has...

Mariz Tadros

11 October 2019

Opinion

The OECD’s digital tax proposal: untangling the impact of ‘Pillar One’ on developing countries

Martin Hearson

10 October 2019

Opinion

Anthropologists discuss the fast-changing face of pastoralism

Mathilde Gingembre

8 October 2019

Opinion

Livelihoods assets: differentiated development in Zimbabwe

Ian Scoones

8 October 2019

Opinion

Careers in international development

International development offers a wide range of career opportunities. IDS postgraduates have gone on to work as ministers in national government, high-level officials in development organisations such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the World Bank, civil servants, leaders...

Carol Smithyes

7 October 2019

Opinion

Are communal areas in Zimbabwe too poor for development?

Ian Scoones

4 October 2019

Opinion

Tax treaties: Why the Indonesian government keeps losing in court

Maarten Hietland

3 October 2019

Opinion

It’s a miracle! The worrying rise of faith-based agronomy

There is a dark tension at the heart of development-oriented crop and soil science. It pits systematic research, respect for evidence, and incremental improvement, against the imperative to construct and claim success and impact ‘at scale’. This tension can be analysed from a political...