IDS students from the MA Gender and Development programme share insights from their own national contexts, highlighting how ...

The taxation of the wealthy represents one of the key challenges for tax professionals and policymakers across the world, ...

As followers of this blog will know, I have recently been in South Africa where debates about land reform provoke strong reactions, particular when Zimbabwe is mentioned. At the end of August, ...

This policy brief reviews why the ‘goldmine argument’ - related to the taxation of informal economies - is false.

Land redistribution is not the flavour of the month. Many see it as impossible, an idealistic position more suited to the 1950s and 60s. Yet in an era of extreme inequality, when land concentration ...

Ahead of the G20 summit, IDS has been engaging with senior policymakers, including the South African government.

The global politics around protracted crises has shifted, with more commitment from donors to engage in these settings. Over the past 20 years, international support for social protection has grown, ...

This paper explores the evolving politics that shape international aid agendas and social assistance delivery in contexts of protracted crises.

Maybe it is clichéd to observe that we face unprecedented global polycrises, but our worlds do seem to be literally and metaphorically on ‘fire’ and collapsing. People in many contexts face increasing ...

Bringing together tax practitioners, researchers, economists, and civil society professionals from low-income countries, this year’s in-person module of the Research on Tax and Development course has ...

Tackling critical contemporary challenges such as climate change, poverty and injustice requires knowledge co-creation and collaboration to inform decision-making that is based on local, national and ...

This rapid literature review explores the rules of origin in the UK's trade agreements after Brexit and its exit from the ...