Opinion

Why did Covid-19 increase women’s care and housework in Pakistan?

Covid-19 lockdown measures resulted in an increase in care and housework in homes around the world. But with the greater presence of men at home as a result of lockdown and job losses, why are women disproportionately bearing the burden of unpaid care work and household chores? This latest...

Ali Cheema & 2 others

Beirut 4 August – Power to the people

August 4, 2020, was a date that shocked the world. Time stopped at 6:07 pm. People around the world watched over and over at video footage of the biggest non-nuclear explosion in the 21st century that took place at Beirut port in Lebanon. The calamity killed 217 people, left more than...

Pamela Hajal

Informal taxation in Nigeria: Significance, benefits and challenges

Billionaires, backlash and the phallic symbolism of space colonisation

Chloe Skinner

Masehual Siuamej: Indigenous women in resistance for their livelihoods and defence of land rights

Epic narratives of the Green Revolution: perspectives from Brazil, China and India

Lídia Cabral & 2 others

Valuing Variability: How Pastoralists Can Inform Debates About Food Systems

Ian Scoones

Has basic income finally arrived in South Africa?

Sunday 25 July was a historic day for social protection in South Africa. It is the day that Basic Income might well have arrived. During his regular televised ‘family gathering’ to update the nation about Covid-19, President Ramaphosa announced: 'we are reinstating the Social Relief of...

Stephen Devereux

Failed support for Pakistan’s National Commission on Status of Women

In 2000, the first Pakistani government body to monitor women’s human rights was set up. But, two decades on, its future is in peril because no agreement can be reached on who to appoint as Chair. When the first Pakistani government body to monitor the state’s compliance with...

Ayesha Khan

Data mining: To Regulate or Not to Regulate?

Land reform in England?

Ian Scoones

Informing UK international development policy

The IDS-led K4D programme had an active year informing health provision, boosting understanding of water security, reacting rapidly to calls for evidence on Covid-19 – and providing evidence and learning to help optimise the UK’s international development...