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 ...

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

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

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.

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

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

The negative impacts of crises on marginalised people’s lives are exacerbated by intersecting inequalities. However, there is limited knowledge about the layered effects of marginalisation and ...

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 ...

Social assistance programmes for displaced people are likely to be more effective if they take the circumstances and preferences of displaced people into account, yet very few do. Most research tends ...

This research seeks to understand how taxation affects men and women differently and relates to gender equity in lower-income countries.