Martin performs support functions including: proposal development, fellow administrative support and ongoing project and event logistical support.
Martin performs support functions including: proposal development, fellow administrative support and ongoing project and event logistical support.
Background The Covid-19 pandemic has deepened existing social, health and nutritional inequities and highlighted common challenges facing marginalised and racialised communities in cities across the Global North and South. It has also driven new social innovations and cross-sector...
As African countries experience rapid urbanisation, there is a need to ensure that this process is well managed, and underpinned by strong public policy and social governance, to support economic development and social welfare. China has much to share from its experience of rapid...
This research and action project will contribute to finding ‘durable solutions’ for housing infrastructural deficits in Turkey, in the context of large scale displacement of Syrian refugees and rapid urbanisation.
IDS, including the IDS Centre for Rising Powers and Global Development, is the UK Anchor Institution for the China International Development Research Network (CIDRN), funded by the FCDO.
Climate change is one of the most urgent and challenging issues faced globally and, at the 2019 IDS staff retreat, a discussion on the concerns shared by many prompted launch of the IDS Climate Action Taskforce. The focus was on how the institute could take action to reduce its impact on...
30 September 2021
China and Global Development Seminar Series
British Standard Time 12:00 - 13:30, 21 July China Standard Time 19:00 - 20:30, 21 July Eastern Daylight Time 07:00 - 08:30, 21 July China’s consumer finance sector is booming, driven in no small part by fintech and digital “Internet finance” ventures. How will this finance and...
China and Global Development Seminar Series
In this webinar we examine the role of new and planned hydropower projects financed by China in shifting geopolitics between China and South and Southeast Asia. We ask how hydropolitics and dams are enabling new forms of economic, social and political regional institutionalisation through the...
China and Global Development Seminar Series
Covid-19 and economic responses to it have amplified and changed the nature of development challenges in fundamental ways. Global development cooperation should adapt accordingly. How have changes to global growth, debt, budget deficits and taxes, aid, capital markets, along with poverty and...
As African countries experience rapid urbanisation, there is a need to ensure that this process is well managed, and underpinned by strong public policy and social governance, to support economic development and social welfare. China has much to share from its experience of rapid urbanisation...