Digital Explainer
This Explainer introduces digital rights, how they are defined and where they come from. It explores three conceptions and common myths.
14 March 2025
SSHAP Briefing
This brief synthesises social and behavioural science (SBS) research on the use of vaccines during health emergencies in sub-Saharan Africa, including vaccines undergoing clinical trials (‘experimental vaccines’). There are outbreaks of mpox, Marburg virus disease and Ebola (Sudan virus...
14 March 2025
IDS Working Paper 617
This Working Paper analyses the emergence and evolution of three community-led initiatives focused on food insecurity, with the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic and the ensuing cost-of-living crisis as the backdrop.
13 March 2025
This K4DD Rapid Evidence Review synthesises the literature from academic sources and knowledge institutions on the evidence what sub-sectors have the best potential for value-added exports that can contribute to the structural economic transformation of Pakistan. The focus of the review is on...
28 February 2025
This K4DD Rapid Evidence Review explores poverty and vulnerability dynamics of coastal areas. Coastal areas are typically densely populated, with high levels of social and economic activity, and distinct environmental challenges arising from climate change impacts, land degradation, and...
28 February 2025
IDS Policy Briefing 218
In a rapidly evolving global trade and development landscape, addressing trade-related challenges through aid for trade (AfT) remains highly relevant. This Policy Briefing provides a framing for an inclusive lens on AfT to enable more inclusive policy and programming.
27 February 2025
BASIC Research Working Paper 35
This paper investigates the role of crises (e.g. armed conflict, displacement, climate-related disasters, Covid‑19, and economic crises) in driving negative poverty trajectories in Nigeria, alongside the extent to which social assistance may be fit for purpose to respond to intersecting crises.
26 February 2025
Forest Policy and Economics 172
Many countries’ forests are over-exploited and mismanaged, including through ineffective taxation. This is the case across Nigeria, where forest management has been decentralised to individual states. In this paper we assess the forestry tax regime in Ekiti State, where forests represent...
25 February 2025
Book
Iraq is a land of rich and diverse cultural heritage, shaped by thousands of years of history. However, many groups and communities are marginalised on religious, ethnic, linguistic, and cultural grounds in Iraq. It is the heritage of such marginalised groups that is most at risk of disappearance.
21 February 2025
IDS Working Paper 616
This paper examines the welfare effects of the unilateral trade preferences scheme of the Generalized System of Preferences for UK–India trade on households in India. The design of unilateral trade preference schemes has been linked to significant uncertainty about preferential market access.
20 February 2025
IDS Working Paper 615
This paper investigates the sudden 2019 termination by the United States Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) of trade with India as a quasi-natural experiment. Given the re-election of Donald Trump and global concerns about the future of global trade, understanding the distributional...
18 February 2025
This resource guide from the Knowledge for Development and Diplomacy programme (K4DD) is designed to provide the UK Government’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) staff and other interested parties with information about free online courses and materials they can use to develop...
17 February 2025
