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The financial crash: lessons from pastoralists?

This blog continues the short series on the new book, Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking for a Turbulent World. In the chapter on Finance and banking, I look at the 2007-08 financial crash and how particular models and regulatory practices created a false sense of security through the...

Ian Scoones

9 September 2024

Opinion

How to understand alignment between scientists on contested policy issues

This week hundreds of policy researchers, implementation scientists, knowledge brokers, and donors gather in Prague to explore how to get research into action. Most of the Global Evidence Summit will be focused on research translation, building capacity for evidence informed decision making and...

James Georgalakis

9 September 2024

Opinion

Addressing gender disparities in tax expenditures

As the fiscal space of governments worldwide is becoming more constrained, ensuring efficient use of revenues is moving up policy agendas. Tax expenditures are benefits granted through the tax system to specific groups, sectors, or activities. With trillions of dollars spent through these...

Sofia Berg & 2 others

4 September 2024

Opinion

Urbanisation is real in SA, yet food security is still seen as a rural challenge – time for policy rethink

The future of any young child conceived today in one of the under-serviced areas of a South African city demands that we act on food insecurity now, and act with urgency and initiative seldom seen in our governance structures. The environmental author Rob Nixon describes society’s...

Gareth Haysom

3 September 2024

Opinion

How to design effective Grievance Redress Mechanisms in the global South

Grievance Redress Mechanisms (GRMs) – formal processes for assessing and resolving complaints – are viewed as empowering citizens in the global South, but the effectiveness and of such mechanisms are often questioned. New evidence from Mozambique sheds light on how GRMs can be better...

Ludovico Alcorta & 2 others

2 September 2024

Opinion

Navigating uncertainty: introducing a new book

Whether it’s climate change, financial volatility, pandemic outbreaks or new technologies, we don’t know what the future will hold. Uncertainties are everywhere. But how can we navigate them successfully? As Helga Nowotny described in her book, such “uncertainties are written into the...

Ian Scoones

2 September 2024

Impact Story

Future development leaders find their vocations and voices at IDS

IDS teaching aims to produce the next generation of informed and knowledgeable leaders and experts, equipping them to respond to societal and environmental challenges. A launch pad for careers Eesha Kapoor and Shreyan Acharya graduated from the MA Development Studies course in the 2021-2022...

1 September 2024

Impact Story

Influencing policy change in Rwanda and a shift in global tax governance

The Rwandan government changed key aspects of its tax policy following pioneering research by the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD), based at IDS. In recent years, mass registration campaigns have been considered by policymakers and donors alike as a speedy way to boost...

30 August 2024

Student Opinion

Student-run initiatives at IDS: The Anti-Caste Reading Circle

This academic year, students from our master’s programmes organised a weekly Anti-Caste Reading Circle. MA Gender and Development student Chandni Sai Ganesh writes about her experiences of enriching her learning outside the classroom through the student-run initiative. One of the first...

Chandni Sai Ganesh

29 August 2024

Opinion

Let’s seize the opportunity to further gender equity in Bangladesh

The Bangladesh national elections in January 2024 had dashed any hopes for political reform as the Awami League party's power remained unchallenged and civic space, including the space to seek greater gender equality, was shrinking daily. Now that the Awami League and its leader Sheikh Hasina...

Maheen Sultan

27 August 2024

Impact Story

BASIC partnership spurs more positive social assistance practices

In a recent example of effective, equitable partnerships, action research methods shared by IDS have contributed to improving social assistance practices that were distressing local people. The change was the result of partnership working between IDS Research Fellow Jackie Shaw and IDS...

26 August 2024

Impact Story

Powercube tool empowers UK nurses to act

Launched in 2009, the Powercube.net is a toolbox for analysing power relations to further social change. Developed by IDS Research Fellow John Gaventa, with Research Associate Jethro Pettit, and a number of partners, the website allows global audiences to access a number of resources. Over the...

24 August 2024

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The financial crash: lessons from pastoralists?

How to understand alignment between scientists on contested policy issues

Addressing gender disparities in tax expenditures

Urbanisation is real in SA, yet food security is still seen as a rural challenge – time for policy rethink

How to design effective Grievance Redress Mechanisms in the global South

Navigating uncertainty: introducing a new book

Future development leaders find their vocations and voices at IDS

Influencing policy change in Rwanda and a shift in global tax governance

Student-run initiatives at IDS: The Anti-Caste Reading Circle

Let’s seize the opportunity to further gender equity in Bangladesh

BASIC partnership spurs more positive social assistance practices

Powercube tool empowers UK nurses to act

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