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Three top tips for getting a job at the UN
Many students come to IDS with aspirations of a career in the UN system. A recent event at IDS gave both students and alumni ...
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UN Tax Talks: New research highlights key scenarios at next week’s historic negotiations
New research from the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) provides crucial insights into the challenges and ...
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The Politics of Social Assistance in Lebanon
This brief examines the politics of social protection amid ongoing financial crisis in Lebanon. It finds that Lebanon’s political settlement remains characterised by sectarian-clientelism and ...
Institute of Development Studies3dOpinion
The turbulence and the toll of the USAID freeze
The stop order on USAID is damaging critical humanitarian and development work around the world, says Peter Taylor, Director ...
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The Politics of Social Assistance in Lebanon: Social Protection, Sectarianism, and Lebanon’s Fragmented Social Contract
This working paper explores the contemporary politics of social assistance (and social protection more broadly) in Lebanon, filling multiple gaps in existing academic and policy literature on ...
Institute of Development Studies9dOpinion
From Brazil to Brighton – reflections on the first term at IDS
Lucas dos Santos Miranda, MA Globalisation, Business & Development student, joined IDS as part of a double master’s programme ...
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New businesses in small towns in Zimbabwe
What are the new businesses being established in the small towns of Zimbabwe? As the last blog has illustrated our long-term study of Mvurwi, Chatsworth and Maphisa shows a variety of changes, with ...