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  Rural-to-urban migration: improving labour market...

  Amanda Jinhage

  A conference co-hosted by the IGC and the Stanford Center for International Development yielded multiple insights on the potential benefits of migration to cities for...

  Blog Post

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  IGC Public Lecture – Making Politics Work for...

  5 December 2016

  Fear of openly confronting the problem of politics can come in the way of achieving economic development goals. To help address this, the Development Research Group of the...

  Event

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  “Inequality harms cooperative efforts. In India...

  Pranab Bardhan

  Professor Pranab Bardhan recently visited LSE’s Economic History Department to speak about research gaps in the interface between history and development. While he was on...

  Blog Post

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  Expanding Indian public health insurance above the...

  Gabriella Conti, Cynthia Kinnan, Ramanan Laxminarayan , Anup Malani, Alessandra Voena

  Since 2008 India’s public health insurance policy has covered the poorest quarter of the population, and the government wants to expand the policy to include households above...

  Blog Post

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  Commodity price shocks in times of crisis: securing...

  Julians Amboko

  Sub-Saharan Africa faces the lowest growth forecast registered by the region since 1994. The recent commodity price plunge has investors worrying over prospects of the...

  Blog Post

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  Growth brief: Taxing to develop – When...

  Henrik Kleven, Adnan Khan, Upaasna Kaul

  Taxes are a channel of reciprocal exchange between citizens and governments. Taxes increase government accountability, encourage better governance, public service...

  Publication