Taking Syria as a country case study from 2011–24 when the Assad regime fell, this paper assesses whether existing social protection programmes – notably consumption subsidies, pensions, and the ...

This briefing note explores what happened to social protection in Syria in the months that followed the fall of the Assad regime. It identifies spaces for social protection reform and rehabilitation.

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 ...

When Donald Trump stood on the White House lawn in April 2025 holding a large, laminated poster announcing the first round of trade tariffs to be imposed on different countries, the Trade Policy ...

A decade ago, a group of us published a Special Issue of the journal World Development discussing the results of collaborative research undertaken through the ESRC-funded ‘China and Brazil in African ...

IDS researchers and PhD candidates are out in force presenting at this year’s Development Studies Association (DSA) conference – the biggest of its kind in Europe – and which takes place in Dublin ...

This webinar launches the 'Comparative Perspectives on International Tax from the Global South' project, started by the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD), in 2024. The project ...

Over the past two decades, lower-income countries, donors, and international organisations have devoted considerable effort to strengthening lower-income countries’ capacity to tax cross-border ...

A South Asian student gives their view on climate change and living in London during the record-breaking heatwave.

If climate policy is to become more grounded, more inclusive and more effective, the challenge is not only to improve the ...

Last week, the UK House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee met to hear evidence into the UK’s engagement with the multilateral system. The Committee invited IDS Senior Research ...