This Briefing is based on a rapid scoping review of anti-rollback actors and activities post-2015, in 14 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mexico, ...

Wealthy Africans face lower effective tax rates than average citizens, replicating a trend already demonstrated for the relative tax burden of small and large companies. This situation is ...

The global race to transition to a low-carbon economy critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, and copper climate change ...

Gauthier Marchais, Research Fellow at IDS, has won the Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award of the Comparative and ...

Those working in humanitarian aid need to build and advance humanitarian diplomacy; reconnect with human rights; use legal ...

This factsheet explains how much zakat we can estimate is being paid in Pakistan every year – and where the money is going.

Dietary diversity is associated with household or individual food availability and intake of nutrients from different food groups and is an important component of nutritional outcome. This study ...

On the occasion of Ramadan, we highlight three findings emerging from a new nationally representative survey in Pakistan on zakat.

In light of recent cuts to aid, Patta Scott-Villiers discusses how communities on the Somalia-Kenya border have navigated conflict and uncertainty, without effective or substantial international aid.

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 ...

Social assistance programmes for displaced people are likely to be more effective if they take the circumstances and preferences of displaced people into account, yet very few do. Most research tends ...

This research seeks to understand how taxation affects men and women differently and relates to gender equity in lower-income countries.