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Reframing Socio–environmental Relations in Coastal Mumbai and Kutch, India

In this article, we explore how local livelihoods and socio–environmental relations can be reframed through co-productive knowledge...

Technological Autonomy or Global Integration: Navigating Vaccine Dependency in LMICs

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Vaccine hoarding during the Covid-19 pandemic exposed the urgent need for low- and middle-income countries to overcome technological dependency – not only to improve competitiveness and resilience but also to enhance global crisis response. Development scholarship has long emphasised the importance of building a distributed base of technological capabilities. But is technological capacity alone enough?

Rapid Scoping Review 2025: India

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

Over the past decade, entrenched intersectional inequalities in India have been deepened by the shrinking space for civil society, the criminalisation of dissent and mass-incarceration of activists, state-sponsored violence against marginalised communities, the corporatisation of media, and the rise of anti-feminist trends, particularly following the change in government after the 2014 elections.

Politicisation and the Role of Business in Trade Negotiations

Published by: Institute of Development Studies

The changing geo-political landscape has shifted focus from generalised normative preferences in trade policy towards more realist goals that seek to create the best advantage for a country under given circumstances. Consequently, as trade issues have become linked to polarised debates including on immigration and environmental issues amongst others, politicisation of trade negotiations has received significant attention.