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.

This report synthesises learning from these audits and is part of a larger project that focuses on understanding the links between sexuality, gender plurality and poverty with the aim of improving ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than forty years ago, Madonna claimed in her massive, generation-defining hit that ‘we are living in a material world’. Today, as the global scramble for critical minerals intensifies – driven by ...