Organisation
Institute of Development Studies UK (IDS)
UK research and teaching organisation
The Institute of Development Studies is a global organisation for research, teaching and communications on international development.
IDS hosts five research teams, eight postgraduate courses, and a family of knowledge services.
The Institute is home to approximately 100 researchers, 70 knowledge services staff, 65 support staff and about 200 students at any one time. But the IDS community extends far beyond, encompassing an extensive network of partners, former staff and students across the development community worldwide.
Published Documents
- Revenue reform and statebuilding in Anglophone Africa
- M. Moore / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
- Within the development field, tax administration reform is an area of relative success. Over the past two decades, the national revenue systems of most countries in anglophone Africa have undergone major reforms. These comprise, in pa...
- Elites, oil and violence mitigation in the Niger Delta
- M. Schultze-Kraft / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
- The crisis in the oil-rich Niger Delta in Nigeria is one of the world’s forgotten conflicts in which thousands have been killed and the country’s vital oil industry has suffered. In the past twenty years, environmental des...
- What next for the BRICS Bank?
- N. Watson; M. Younis; S. Spratt / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
- A new development bank to be created by the ‘Rising Powers’ of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) is intended to promote greater cooperation between developing countries, and address what is seen by many...
- Rising Powers in International Development: an annotated bibliography
- M. Younis; J. Constantine; E. Wach; L. Navas-Alemán; A. Shankland; A. Yadav / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
- The Rising Powers – a category that includes the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) as well as other key countries such as Mexico, Turkey and Indonesia – are establishing themselves as an influential pre...
- Zoonoses - from panic to planning
- Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
- Over two thirds of all human infectious diseases have their origins in animals. The rate at which these zoonotic diseases have appeared in people has increased over the past 40 years, with at least 43 newly identified outbreaks since ...
- Mediating voices and communicating realities: Using information crowdsourcing tools, open data initiatives and digital media to support and protect the vulnerable and marginalised
- E. Berdou / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
- To what extent can innovative technologies for advocacy and collective action, such as Ushahidi and OpenStreetMap, support poor and marginalised communities to improve their lives and livelihoods? This report examines initiatives whic...
- China and the African oil sector: channels of engagement, motives, actors and impacts
- F. urban / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
- China’s rapid economic growth and urbanisation puts pressure on the country’s scarce domestic natural resources, which are essential for powering the ever-growing economy. Consequently, China is increasingly engaging with lo...
- The understanding and practice of development in China and the European Union
- F. Urban / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2011
- China’s role in international development rose to prominence in the mid-2000s, when new Chinese actors began engaging in public and private activities in the global South. This has implications for low income countries for which ...
- China's private enterprises in Africa and the implications for African development
- J. Gu / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2009
- Studies on the involvement of China’s private business sector in Africa have predominantly focused on China’s state-owned enterprises in extractive industries; much less attention has been paid to Chinese private enterprises...
- What path will Ethiopia follow after the death of Prime Minister Meles?
- M. Handino; J. Lind; B. Mesfin / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2012
- The death of the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi in August 2012 has raised serious questions about Ethiopia's political stability and development trajectory. Meles built up a complex web of relationships that conjoined domestic...
