Following a landmark vote in the UN General Assembly in December 2023, negotiations are taking place that will lead to a new framework convention on tax.

People and commuters face difficulties in transportation on flooded roads due to poor sewerage systems, after a heavy downpour in Karachi. Pakistan. Image: Asianet-Pakistan/Shutterstock.

Humanitarian agencies and donors are increasingly advocating for the use of cash-based assistance (CBA), recognising its flexibility and potential to empower affected communities. Both the Grand ...

We know climate change is happening, but it’s uncertain as to how the impacts will play out, to what extent, where, affecting whom. In the sixth chapter of Navigating Uncertainty: Radical Rethinking ...

Using the case study of the Kibera slums, this paper takes a medical anthropological approach to discuss and explain the untold and common practice among the urban poor in developing countries that is ...

Where do you shit? In developing countries, the answer may determine whether you live or die. Around 2.6 billion people defecate in the open. The consequences are dire: shit carries disease and is a ...

How do we make sense of what voters have been doing in this year of elections? Too often we think of the results of elections ...

has emerged around their relative efficacy. Some commentators see diversity as a continued source of strength, positioning foundations to address the complexity, contingency and negotiated nature of ...

Resilience has, in the past four decades, been a term increasingly employed throughout a number of sciences: psychology and ecology, most prominently. Increasingly one finds it in political science, ...

The Great Green Wall initiative is a tree planting restoration project that stretches from Senegal to Djibouti, 5,000 miles (8,000km) across Africa’s Sahel region. It is failing in its aims and needs ...

The relationships between energy and development are complex, compounded by increasingly differentiated situations amongst developing countries and within them. Moreover, the manner in which energy ...

Moyo, B (2011) 'Transformative Innovations in African Philanthropy' The Bellagio Initiative, Brighton: IDS ...