Following Foreign Secretary David Lammy’s visit to Beijing as part of an effort to normalise relations, we need to think through reengagement with China on global health and development.

The civil war in the Republic of Sudan, which began in April 2023, has fuelled and exacerbated an already severe humanitarian crisis. As of September 2024, over 25 million people – half the country’s ...

The 21st century has seen an upsurge in health threats which are complex both in their origins and how they play out in the world. Better understanding of these threats and who they effect, when and ...

Climate change is causing shifts in rainfall patterns across the world, damaging agriculture and livelihoods and impacting millions of lives globally. In India, farmers in rural Gujarat are caught in ...

The ‘Zoonotic influenza preparedness: a transdisciplinary One Health approach’ (ZIP) project seeks to develop new ways of thinking about the risks factors for bird flu (avian influenza), a disease whi ...

Lack of trust and cooperation may lead ministries to agree to unnecessarily low annual revenue collection targets for tax ...

It is often assumed that people with disabilities are a small minority group. However, the latest global estimates are that ...

The Republic of Sudan is suffering a catastrophic famine. The entire country is in food crisis or food emergency. In July 2024, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) declared famine ...

Digital public infrastructure holds great potential in strengthening increasingly digitalised tax administration, but important questions persist on how to fully unlock this potential for governments ...

This background paper focuses on the potential role that international science and technology ‘foresight-type’ activities might play in informing decision-making processes about innovation, ...

Food and nutrition insecurity is a reality for a large number of people in India. Social safety nets to ensure food security of the poor and vulnerable become important in such a scenario. The Public ...

This rapid summary of evidence was prepared by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) as a background briefing paper to inform a panel event and discussion: ‘Opposition and Resistance to Clean ...