ESRC -DFID funded project investigated why ethnic minority peoples have failed to share equally in the benefits of Vietnam's recent rapid economic growth, despite the plethora of government programmes designed to assist them.
Undertaking collaborative research into the causes and effects of violent conflict at the household level.
The objective of this work was to assist the GoP with developing a national social protection strategy, involving public and private initiatives that can contribute, both directly and indirectly, to growth, poverty reduction and human security in Pakistan.
Agenda-setting papers identifying the major issues raised by China's rapid growth for developing countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Latin America, and a review of issues arising from China's participation in institutions of global governance.
The goal of the project was to promote the development of research networks in sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia working on the Asian Drivers theme: the impact of China and India on other parts of the developing world.
The question driving this project was how was the 'organisational decomposition of the innovation process' (ODIP) changing the global distribution of innovation activities.
Concern commissioned IDS to carry out an external evaluation of the FACT programme in Malawi
This research investigated whether the capabilities associated with the basic 'production' of software had led to increasing 'innovation' capabilities after the turn of the millennium.
This research project looked at non-governmental public actors and how they engage with multi-level policy processes which bridge Southern and Northern contexts. It also investigated the impacts and outcomes of these engagements.
IDS were commissioned by the UK Department for International Development to conduct a literature review of how and to what extent social cash transfer programmes have had effects upon the local economy.
How, in the political and institutional environments typical of poor countries, can governments and other state actors achieve substantial increases in productive private investment?
Major illness in the family has become an important cause of household impoverishment in China and the ex-command economies of Southeast Asia, as these countries have managed the transition to a market economy.
