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8 February 2016
Our flagship publication, the IDS Bulletin, was officially re-launched as an open access journal at the British Library, last week.Moving from a subscription-based to open access journal will make it more widely available to non-academic audiences and as well as researchers globally.
25 January 2016
Hot on the heels of the World Development Report 2016, which argues that digital technologies have fallen short of their potential to improve growth, opportunities and service delivery for everyone everywhere, the latest IDS Bulletin sounds a warning to digital optimists who believe that opening data will lead to improved governance and accountability.
17 February 2015
Published by: IDS
Rising prosperity around the globe is both welcome and, in many countries, long overdue. However, it brings with it a number of undesirable consequences, such as an increased demand for raw materials, which puts pressure on limited natural resources, and the generation of waste, due to dominant linear economic models of ‘make-use-throw’.
The 'Balancing unpaid care work and paid work: successes, challenges and lessons for women's economic empowerment programmes and policies' project aims to create knowledge about how women's economic empowerment (WEE) policy and programming can generate paid work that empowers women and provides more support for their unpaid care work responsibilities.
18 August 2014
Published by: IDS
Rapidly urbanising Nepal and youth unemployment present challenges to security provision.
17 June 2014
Published by: IDS
The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are increasingly prominent in development cooperation activities in low-income countries in Africa and worldwide, presenting a potential alternative to the development aid model of traditional donors.
12 May 2014
Published by: IDS
The overarching purpose of the Addressing and Mitigating Violence (AMV) theme is to generate useful analysis to tackle policy dilemmas relating to ‘newer’ forms of violence and organised crime.
8 August 2013
Published by: IDS
The overarching purpose of the Addressing and Mitigating Violence theme (AMV) is to generate useful analysis to tackle policy dilemmas relating to ‘newer’ forms of violence and organised crime.
Researching the impacts of, and responses to, volatile food prices in poor communities in Bangladesh, Bolivia, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Indonesia, Kenya, Pakistan, Vietnam and Zambia.
IDS, 3ie and Norad conducted a joint project to explore the impact of research communications on the understanding and retention of the reader.