The International Growth Centre is pleased to convene Growth Week, a unique three-day conference which took place between 19th and 21st of September at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). Growth Week is the annual conference of the IGC, based at the London School of Economics. It brought together the IGC's international network of scholars, institutional partners and policy makers in partner countries in Africa and South Asia for three days.
Growth Week is unique. No other event combines a critical mass of decision makers with stellar academics. It embodies the mission of the IGC to bring together researchers and policy makers with the purpose of supporting policy with a foundation of rigorous evidence.
The formal sessions of Growth Week were a mixture of ten research themes focused on policy audiences (Agriculture, Climate Change, Environment and Natural Resources, Finance, Firm Capabilities, Governance, Accountability and Political Economy, Human Capital, Infrastructure and Urbanisation, Macroecononics, State Capabilities and Trade) and eleven country programme sessions (Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India Central and Bihar, Mozambique, Pakistan, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Zambia), which report on recent developments and highlight the emerging policy questions in country contexts.
The sessional framework is enveloped by sufficient space for networking and side-line meetings to discuss fresh ideas on the interface of research and policy. In the evenings, there were three public sessions, featuring a range of distinguished speakers.
Growth Week was invite-only. To see the programme, please click here.
The presentations, videos and audio materials produced during Growth Week 2011 are being uploaded on the Growth Week 2011 page.
For papers and presentations from Growth Week 2010, please click here.
