Wealthy Africans face lower effective tax rates than average citizens, replicating a trend already demonstrated for the relative tax burden of small and large companies. This situation is ...

Those working in humanitarian aid need to build and advance humanitarian diplomacy; reconnect with human rights; use legal ...

Gauthier Marchais, Research Fellow at IDS, has won the Jackie Kirk Outstanding Book Award of the Comparative and ...

The global race to transition to a low-carbon economy critical minerals like lithium, cobalt, and copper climate change ...

This Briefing is based on a rapid scoping review of anti-rollback actors and activities post-2015, in 14 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Mexico, ...

Initiatives that emerged during the Covid-19 pandemic provided marginalised communities with dignified access to food and can ...

This factsheet explains how much zakat we can estimate is being paid in Pakistan every year – and where the money is going.

In light of recent cuts to aid, Patta Scott-Villiers discusses how communities on the Somalia-Kenya border have navigated conflict and uncertainty, without effective or substantial international aid.

Recent policy debates have increasingly focused on the gendered impacts of taxation, yet much of this work is rooted in high-income contexts, overlooking the realities of low- and middle-income ...

Thirty years of civil war, insurgency, and counterinsurgency in Somalia and neighbouring northeastern Kenya have hollowed out state services and left borderland communities beleaguered. Yet in this ...

On the occasion of Ramadan, we highlight three findings emerging from a new nationally representative survey in Pakistan on zakat.