Tax is not only the primary source of financing in lower-income countries, but also the lynchpin of development finance.
24 June 2025
This brief explores public support for wealth taxation and the factors that shape those attitudes in Pakistan.
23 June 2025
BASIC Research Working Paper 39
This review examines shifts and emerging trends in the accountability of social assistance during crises, based on findings from the previous 2022 review. It draws on primary research from the Better Assistance in Crises (BASIC) Research programme, including themes such as targeting, aid...
18 June 2025
IDS Policy Briefing 221
Esta nota informativa analisa seis estudos de caso do programa POTENCIAR, implementado no setor da saúde em Moçambique. Destaca lições para os programas de governança e discute a forma como o POTENCIAR facilitou a partilha de conhecimentos, o planeamento participativo, a coordenação...
12 June 2025
Building on critical scholarship on multiple resiliencies, this article takes temporalities seriously as the basis for its analysis. While disasters are usually described by resilience scholars as moments of temporal rupture, the article engages with different notions of temporalities with...
10 June 2025
In this article, we explore how local livelihoods and socio–environmental relations can be reframed through co-productive knowledge practices and legal activism. We start by tracing the emergence of colonial declensionist views of environments in India as ‘productive’ and ‘normal’,...
6 June 2025
SSHAP Evidence Synthesis
This note presents a rapid synthesis of evidence related to community protection in countries affected by the mpox clade 1b outbreak.
6 June 2025
This case study explores the World Food Programme’s (WFP) role in supporting social protection in Zimbabwe over the last decade. It assesses how WFP has supported the building blocks of Zimbabwe’s national social protection system, focusing on non-contributory social assistance as the...
6 June 2025
South America has compelling reasons to address the climate and environmental crisis. First, the region is highly vulnerable to its impacts due to its economic reliance on natural resources and the susceptibility of its population. Addressing these vulnerabilities is crucial for the...
5 June 2025
SSHAP Roundtable Report
Low-income countries are reeling from the sudden and wide-ranging cuts to U.S. government foreign assistance, as well as from announcements that several European donor governments are also reducing their contributions. Among the worst affected is South Sudan, a country which is experiencing...
5 June 2025
This case study reviews the World Food Programme’s (WFP) support to social protection in Bangladesh over the last decade. It assesses how WFP has supported the building blocks of Bangladesh’s social protection system and delineates lessons learned, particularly in the context of the...
4 June 2025
This case study reviews WFP’s support to the national social protection system in the Philippines since 2018, in particular to the government’s flagship nutrition-sensitive social protection programme Walang Gutom. It also examines WFP’s efforts aimed at improving the shock-responsiveness...
4 June 2025
