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Rethinking Economics for an Uncertain World: Challenges for Development

Uncertainties are everywhere, whether emerging through climate change, financial volatility, conflict or war. All too often we don’t know what the future will hold. This presents a big challenge for conventional styles of economic development where predictive models, blueprint plans and...

Ian Scoones

2 February 2024

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Universal social protection urgently needed in Lebanon

The ruling class in the Lebanese government has been accused of misusing social assistance provisioning to benefit themselves and their supporters for decades. Their influence as political elites enables them to control state social institutions, skim aid from international donors and exert...

Nadine Khayat

30 January 2024

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Uncertain Worlds – watch our new animation

Uncertainty is all around – how can we respond? Experiences from pastoralism show that flexible, adaptive, caring responses are vital for dealing with uncertainties. But dominant approaches in many areas are often about exerting control, and assuming predictable risks. Here’s a new short...

Ian Scoones

30 January 2024

Opinion

We need a new approach to achieve a decent living for plantation workers

Worker wages in plantations are low – often too low to make a decent living. Calculations show that, for instance, in Kenya, a living wage would be equivalent to 218 USD per month, twice the monthly pay that tea pickers in Kenya currently get. In Latin America, the difference between the legal...

Giel Ton

29 January 2024

Opinion

Managing money: savings and investment in Zimbabwean agriculture

The previous two blogs have explored how people in rural settings get hold of money, either through loans/credit or from remittances, but making use of and managing money is a challenge, especially in a high-inflation economy and one with parallel exchange rates. Here, savings arrangements are...

Ian Scoones

29 January 2024

Opinion

Promoting community-centred preparedness and response to cholera’s global surge

The unprecedented scale and extent of the global cholera upsurge presents a challenge for effective disease control efforts worldwide. Not only are there more outbreaks, but they are also larger, making them more difficult to control without the standard two-dose vaccination regimen, which has...

Eva Niederberger & 2 others

22 January 2024

Opinion

Why study an MA Development Studies? Meet course co-convenor Stephen Thompson

Thinking about studying a Master’s in Development Studies but want to know a bit more? In this blog post Stephen Thompson, IDS Fellow and co-convenor on the IDS MA Development Studies course, shares his thoughts on why this course is relevant now, what makes it unique, and what he finds most...

Stephen Thompson

22 January 2024

Opinion

The changing remittance economy in Zimbabwe

The flow of remittances to Zimbabwe is huge, with diaspora remittances from outside the country estimated at over US$1 billion per annum, or around 16% of total foreign exchange receipts. This comes from a large network in the diaspora, whether in the region (mostly South Africa) or further...

Ian Scoones

22 January 2024

Opinion

Pastoralists and pandemics

This is the tenth in a series of blog posts that bring together PASTRES work from 2018-2023 around a number of themes. In this post, we discuss the theme of pandemics. To read through our archive on this theme, click on the link at the end of this post. The COVID-19 pandemic occurred right in...

Ian Scoones

19 January 2024

Opinion

Pastoralism and agrarian change

This is the ninth in a series of blog posts that bring together PASTRES work from 2018-2023 around a number of themes. In this post, we discuss the theme of agrarian change. To read through our archive on this theme, click on the link at the end of this post. An important theme running through...

Ian Scoones

16 January 2024

Student Opinion

The global becomes home

Studying for her MA Gender & Development, Faith Chiazor shares with us her experience of moving from Nigeria to the UK to study, and how she has settled into life at IDS. Discovering IDS Family, they say, is home. When I left home, the plan was to go and study. I had been leading the YARN...

Faith Chiazor

15 January 2024

Student Opinion

Careers support at IDS

There are a number of practical ways we can support you, both with developing your career in international development and finding work while you’re studying. The following is a flavour of what is on offer: Finding and applying for a job in the UK whilst studying at IDS All IDS Students...

15 January 2024

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Rethinking Economics for an Uncertain World: Challenges for Development

Universal social protection urgently needed in Lebanon

Uncertain Worlds – watch our new animation

We need a new approach to achieve a decent living for plantation workers

Managing money: savings and investment in Zimbabwean agriculture

Promoting community-centred preparedness and response to cholera’s global surge

Why study an MA Development Studies? Meet course co-convenor Stephen Thompson

The changing remittance economy in Zimbabwe

Pastoralists and pandemics

Pastoralism and agrarian change

The global becomes home

Careers support at IDS

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