The relationships between climate change and land issues are complex. If we are to direct financing appropriately, these connections must be unravelled. As we argue in our open access book, Climate ...

Women frontline workers in Yemen are crucial for delivering cash transfers and responding to the needs of women and girls. They take on both substantial responsibilities and personal risk, operating ...

The publication of a US congressional bill to guide foreign policy on September 11th has offered hope to Zimbabweans that the draconian ZDERA (the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act, 2001) ...

Across the African continent, professional qualification is perceived as a panacea for youth employment, particularly if the ...

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

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

After weeks of mounting demonstrations in Madagascar, Gen Z Mada social movement has mobilised to bring about change.

Maybe it is clichéd to observe that we face unprecedented global polycrises, but our worlds do seem to be literally and ...

This note examines views of different actors in Nigeria on whether and how social assistance should be used to help households negatively affected by these shocks.

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 ...

This paper focuses on reforming Sri Lanka’s main property tax, commonly known as the rate assessment system, which currently generates only tiny amounts of revenue for local councils. Despite its ...

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