We find that the majority of informal sector operators in this context pay a range of taxes and fees, which together amount to a significant burden, especially for low earners.

Each year, nearly 200 countries participate in the UN Climate Conference (COP) to discuss the impact of climate change and ...

On 8th October, an unexpected cabinet announcement laid out plans for a completely new tenure regime in the land reform areas. This was to provide a secure form of tenure arrangement; not necessarily ...

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 National Policy for Children 2013 adopted by the Government of India in April 2013, adheres to the Constitutional mandate and guiding principles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of ...

Governments’ abilities to collect taxes depend on people’s willingness to pay them. Encouraging tax compliance demands a careful understanding of how taxpayers think about and experience taxation.

The Global Dialogue on Sustainability, Climate Change and Economic Growth was held in São Paulo in October 2011. It was co-organised by the Brazilian Centre for Analysis and Planning (CEBRAP) and the ...

As IDS releases its report Building Solidarities, we spoke to some of the students currently studying MA Gender & Development ...

A new photo exhibition centres the voices from 16 women’s rights movements across Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan ...

Our short film introduces the perspectives of four IDS alumni who all work or study in the area of gender equality.

Projects aiming to reduce health risks from extreme heat are increasingly using wearable tech devices like health trackers ...

The 29th Conference of Parties (COP) was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, where a nearby district was known as Black City due to all ...