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Providing research and knowledge for more equitable and sustainable societies. IDS is at the forefront of international development. Working with partners around the world, we are transforming global knowledge to bring about equitable and sustainable societies where everyone, everywhere can live secure, fulfilling lives free from poverty and ...
Supporting African think tanks makes sense – and why more …
5 days ago · Policy making is a messy business. While rationality and certainty are often viewed as desirable traits, the reality is that policy processes in the vast majority of contexts involve multiple actors, and are highly contested, volatile, uncertain, and complex. Policy-making is a political process, as is the generation and use of evidence, shaped by various […]
Food rights and livestock: examining alternatives in the global South
Oct 16, 2024 · This year, World Food Day is all about rights to food, celebrating the basic human rights that ensure all have access to healthy, nutritious, safe and culturally appropriate food always. As a result of climate change, conflicts and the entrenched inequity embedded in the social, economic and political systems we live in, too many people […]
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The Institute of Development Studies (IDS) delivers world-class research, learning and teaching that transforms the knowledge, action and leadership needed for more equitable and sustainable development globally. We work with governments, philanthropic foundations, non-governmental organisations, academics and civil society to create approaches to progressive social, political and economic ...
Sustainable Rural Livelihoods: A Framework for Analysis
The concept of ‘sustainable livelihoods’ is increasingly important in the development debate. This paper outlines a framework for analysing sustainable livelihoods, defined here in relation to five key indicators. The framework shows how, in different contexts, sustainable livelihoods are achieved through access to a range of livelihood ...
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Research for better lives globally. IDS research responds to the major social, environmental and economic issues of our time to bring about progressive change. We investigate challenges faced by marginalised communities, analyse the dynamics that maintain structures of inequality, and outline pathways to sustainable transformation.
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World leaders in development studies. Ranked first in the world for Development Studies (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023) for the eighth year in a row – the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) transforms the knowledge, action and leadership needed for more equitable and sustainable development globally, through …
IDS Annual Lecture with Mariana Mazzucato
Key contacts. Sophie Robinson. External Affairs Manager. [email protected]. +44 (0)1273 915763. The IDS Annual Lecture by Professor Mariana Mazzucato, speaking on ‘Rethinking growth: making economies work for the common good’.
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The work you do with us will help make progressive change towards universal development; to build and connect solidarities for collective action, locally and globally. IDS, in partnership with the University of Sussex, has been ranked 1st in the world for Development Studies for the past seven years (QS World University Rankings by Subject).
The Meaning of Development - Institute of Development Studies
The Meaning of Development. Published on 1 January 1969. Dudley Seers suggests that development is when a country experiences a reduction or elimination of poverty, inequality and unemployment. Edgar Owens (1987) suggested that development is when there is development of people (human development) and not development of things.