The International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) has been granted $4.5 million by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to establish a 3-year research and capacity building program on tax in relation to digital financial services, and their use, as well as digital ID infrastructure, in...
21 November 2019
The 30th anniversary of the United Nations Convention of the Rights of the Child serves as a reminder that a decent standard of living and the ability to develop are basic rights of all children everywhere. Poverty is a major risk to young children. Lack of income and poor living conditions...
20 November 2019
19 November 2019
18 November 2019
Power may be an 'essentially contested concept' for academics, as Steven Lukes put it, but it is also endlessly contested in practice. Today’s news is bursting with examples of power being abused, challenged, claimed or created in myriad ways by diverse actors in every corner of the...
15 November 2019
15 November 2019
As gluey oil drops continued being washed ashore, spoiling Atalaia's sandy beaches in Brazil’s latest environmental disaster, eight miles inland, São Cristóvão sang and danced, wearing feathers, waving flags, honouring nature and celebrating a variety of social and cultural identities,...
14 November 2019
12 November 2019
The much-needed independent review on the future of international collaboration, innovation and research by Professor Sir Adam Smith and Professor Graeme Reid was published last week. The review, called 'Changes and choices: advice on future frameworks for international collaboration on...
12 November 2019
11 November 2019
4 November 2019
In Brazil, 85 per cent of the nation’s population live in urban areas and 86 per cent of public transport is made by bus. This makes urban buses an important topic for Brazil’s development – especially in the context of notions of civil, political and social rights to the...
4 November 2019
