Biometric digital-ID cards should only be introduced once safeguards are in place, and with the consent and participation of ...

The world is experiencing more conflict now than since 1946. This blog explores state fragility and cascading climate risks ...

After decades of export-focused economic policy, Mexico is looking back at its domestic market. Last year, the government ...

This year is the 60th anniversary of the Institute of Development Studies based at the University of Sussex. IDS has been an independent institute linked to the university since June 1966, so the ...

In this IDS Sparks event, we have selected four bold ideas which offer possibilities for tackling some of the biggest issues of 2026 ...

This paper examines the distributional dynamics of zakat in Pakistan, helping understand non-state welfare provision in a Muslim-majority country.

The term ‘development’ has been central to global conversations for decades, but the way it is understood, practised, and questioned has shifted dramatically. In this Between the Lines podcast episode ...

Accountability is now a buzzword in contemporary development debates. It is central to development policy, whether government accountability (as a central component of good governance), corporate ...

Global risks of zoonotic disease are high on policy agendas. Increasingly, Africa is seen as a ‘hotspot’, with likely disease spillovers from animals to humans. This paper explores the social dynamics ...

The relationships between energy and development are complex, compounded by increasingly differentiated situations amongst developing countries and within them. Moreover, the manner in which energy ...

Resilience has, in the past four decades, been a term increasingly employed throughout a number of sciences: psychology and ecology, most prominently. Increasingly one finds it in political science, ...