The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) welcomed the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Dr Harini Amarasuriya, yesterday to celebrate the institute’s 60th anniversary.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has determined that the current Ebola outbreak caused by the Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda constitutes a public health ...

Our study of Zimbabwe’s land reform after 25 years has been looking at land use and environmental change and the intersection with economic, social and political processes. Over the last year we have ...

IDS is honoured to welcome the Hon. Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Dr Harini Amarasuriya to mark the 60th anniversary of IDS. Join this event to hear Dr Harini Amarasuriya share her journey from her ...

In the public sector, Spain has made big efforts not to lag behind digital leaders in terms of public e-readiness and e-government, but the country’s economic and political frameworks have dragged it ...

This month appears to be all about trying to chart a new direction for global development cooperation. After the OECD’s Future of Development Cooperation conference, which took place in Paris last ...

The Trump–Xi summit in Beijing should not be read as a great-power settlement between Washington and Beijing. Nor should it ...

Taxation is a central part of a new era of development that has fiscal resilience, system change and people at its core.

Next week we’re delighted to welcome the Prime Minister of Sri Lanka, Dr Harini Amarasuriya, to mark the 60th anniversary of IDS. Sri Lanka offers a positive story about democratic renewal, which in ...

The death of Dr Kamal Kar, pioneer of Community-Led Total Sanitation, on May 3 has been devastating for all the people around ...