The 21st century has seen an upsurge in health threats which are complex both in their origins and how they play out in the ...

Following Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s visit to Beijing as part of an effort to normalise relations, we need to think through reengagement with China on global health and development.

The civil war in the Republic of Sudan, which began in April 2023, has fuelled and exacerbated an already severe humanitarian crisis. As of September 2024, over 25 million people – half the country’s ...

The ‘Zoonotic influenza preparedness: a transdisciplinary One Health approach’ (ZIP) project seeks to develop new ways of thinking about the risks factors for bird flu (avian influenza), a disease whi ...

Lack of trust and cooperation may lead ministries to agree to unnecessarily low annual revenue collection targets for tax ...

Climate change is causing shifts in rainfall patterns across the world, damaging agriculture and livelihoods and impacting millions of lives globally. In India, farmers in rural Gujarat are caught in ...

It is often assumed that people with disabilities are a small minority group. However, the latest global estimates are that ...

Menstruation is a natural and healthy part of the life of women and girls, but is often a taboo subject, not easily talked about, which can lead to feelings of embarrassment and shame. It can also ...

The Republic of Sudan is suffering a catastrophic famine. The entire country is in food crisis or food emergency. In July 2024, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) declared famine ...

As the Navigating Uncertainty book shows, the politics of risk are centred on calculative, technocratic control, where we assume we can predict, model and manage. A politics of uncertainty by contrast ...

Digital public infrastructure holds great potential in strengthening increasingly digitalised tax administration, but important questions persist on how to fully unlock this potential for governments ...

This rapid summary of evidence was prepared by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) as a background briefing paper to inform a panel event and discussion: ‘Opposition and Resistance to Clean ...