For the second year in a row, social protection, loss and damage and debt relief are the hot topics in IIED’s 10 most ...

As 2024 draws to a close, we're showcasing some of the content we've published during the last 12 months. Our insights offer a place for IIED staff and guest authors to share their personal views and ...

The 16th session of the Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification concluded last week in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the wake of the talks, IIED’s David Pertaub ...

A majority of the world’s estimated cobalt reserves are in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with 10-30% of its annual production mined artisanally (Photo: Fairphone, via Flickr, CC BY-NC 2.0) ...

A series of insights and interviews designed to share the experiences of community leaders, professionals, researchers and government from the global South Fishing community slum of Sai Baba Sahi ...

This paper engages with the global debate about the meaningfulness, validity and reliability of the poverty-line approach by examining the Egyptian poverty lines in relation to the reality of the ...

This paper was prepared as an informal background briefing for the first session of the Open-ended Intergovernmental Expert ...

Some of the world’s poorest countries are being trapped in a vicious cycle of debt because of a credit rating system that punishes disaster-linked debt relief and fails to adequately measure ...

In early December, donor governments met in Korea to agree the replenishment of the International Development Association (IDA) – the World Bank's fund for 78 low-income countries. Laura Kelly ...

Society’s poorest, most marginalised and excluded people have little say on the triple crisis of climate change, nature’s degradation and poverty; yet they are most affected by it. Climate finance is ...

Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are experiencing increasingly frequent climate-related disasters with severe consequent economic impacts. These nations’ financial stability is further ...