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.
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
Children are being driven into sexual exploitation and the worst forms of child labour in Nepal’s adult entertainment sector (AES), due to pressure to support their families financially, new research reveals. The study shows that although there were some cases of child trafficking, the...
14 August 2024
IDS staff and students have put together an essential reading and listening list for the year so far. These books and podcasts cover a whole range of topical themes within development including: immigration gender rights climate change micro-finance financial markets ...
6 August 2024
Funding from development agencies for research projects is integral for trying to reduce global poverty, but often short-term funding produces short-term results which are hard to track in the terms of a positive impact. But what are the benefits of long-term funding of a long...
31 July 2024
In the context of the recent violence in Bangladesh, in which it is reported that at least 150 people have been killed and many more injured, IDS's Acting Director shares the following statement: Professor Peter Taylor, Acting Director of the Institute of Development Studies, said: “IDS has...
25 July 2024
This week hundreds of policy researchers, implementation scientists, knowledge brokers, and donors gather in Prague to explore how to get research into action. Most of the Global Evidence Summit will be focused on research translation, building capacity for evidence informed decision making and the evaluation of evidence use.
MA Development Studies student Deep Mehta shares his honest reflections about his year with us – including the challenges and frictions caused when your values, beliefs and opinions and not always aligned with those who you are studying with. Much of what I say here overlaps with what...
19 September 2024
Early in September, two summits of continental importance were held to reflect and consider Africa’s future. The first was the 2024 African Food Systems Forum (AFSForum2024) held in Kigali and the other was the inaugural Africa Urban Forum on “Sustainable Urbanization for Africa’s...
17 September 2024
Human waste is rich in water, nutrients and organic compounds, most of which nowadays are just going down the drain. The concept of “brown gold” highlights the sheer scale of the economic benefits if we were able to recover all these hidden resources by reusing the treated...
17 September 2024
In the regulation of new technologies, the questions of what is safe for whom are always thrown up. This is the third blog in a short series discussing the new book – Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World. The third chapter looks at a range of technologies – AI,...
16 September 2024
In this blog written from a meeting of thousands of knowledge brokers and scientists at the Global Evidence Summit, I ask how are we going to put the rapid into rapid evidence reviews? I was excited to attend a session at the Global Evidence Summit in Prague this week on “Meeting the Need for...
12 September 2024
This blog continues the short series on the new book, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World. In the chapter on Finance and banking, I look at the 2007-08 financial crash and how particular models and regulatory practices created a false sense of security through the...
9 September 2024