Partners
Funder
Department for International Development
The Department for International Development (DFID) is part of the UK Government that manages Britain's aid to poor countries and works to eradicate extreme poverty. More than 1 billion, more than one in six of the world's population, live in extreme poverty. This means that they live on less than $1.25 a day and cannot afford basic healthcare or education for their children. Economic growth creates jobs, raises incomes and is the most powerful tool in lifting people out of poverty.
Hubs
The London School of Economics and Political Science
The LSE has built a strong research infrastructure to support the work of its economists in the area of growth and development, using the model of a lab-based research centre. The LSE Research Lab, opened in 2001, is a purpose-built facility to house research in the social sciences and hosts the LSE’s major research centres in economics – the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD) and the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP).
University of Oxford
In Oxford, the International Growth Centre is housed in the Department of Economics. Oxford draws on the strength of the world's leading research centre on African economic development in the world - the Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) – based in this department. The Oxford Institute for Global Economic Development (OXIGED) has been launched more recently to bring together Oxford academics working on global growth, development and the international economy, mainly economists but also political scientists.
Partners
Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) is a world-leader in conducting randomized policy evaluations for development economics research. These evaluations provide strong and useful policy recommendations and the IGC will be a key partner in both as regards research and in bringing J-PAL research findings into policy. The IGC will embed J-PAL in a global network of growth researchers, and help to feed the lessons of their research into the country networks that the IGC will build. J-PAL has a firm footprint in South Asia and Africa (with a South Asia office in Chennai).
African Economic Research Consortium
The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC), established in 1988 is a public not-for-profit organization devoted to the advancement of economic policy research and training. AERC's mission is to strengthen local capacity for conducting independent, rigorous inquiry into the problems facing the management of economies in sub-Saharan Africa. William Lyakurwa, AERC's Executive Director, talks to Romesh Vailtilingam about the Consortium's initiatives to build capacity for policy-relevant research in Sub Saharan Africa.
BRAC
BRAC, a development organisation founded by Fazle Hasan Abed in February 1972, has acted as both the initiator and catalyst for many innovations. It started as a rehabilitation project to help Bangladesh overcome the devastation of the liberation war of 1971. Gradually, it broadened its focus to long term sustainable poverty reduction and has now established itself as a pioneer in recognising and tackling the different dimensions of poverty.
Bureau for the Economic Analysis of Development
BREAD is a non-profit organization, founded in 2002, dedicated to encourage research and scholarship in development economics. Its main activities are conferences, a working paper and policy paper series, and a summer school. BREAD is the premier global network of economists working on development and is the North American partner of GDN.
Centre for Economic Policy Research
The Centre for Economic Policy Research, founded in 1983, is a network of over 750 researchers based mainly in universities throughout Europe, who collaborate through the Centre in research and its dissemination. The Centre's goal is to promote research excellence and policy relevance in European economics. CEPR Research Fellows and Affiliates are based in over 237 different institutions in 28 countries (90% in the EU).
European Development Research Network
EUDN is a network of the top development economists working in Europe. EUDN links members of different development research institutions, particularly in the field of development economics, from Europe with the rest of the World. The objectives of EUDN are
Global Development Network
The Global Development Network (GDN) is a leading international organization working with developing country researchers and policy research institutes to support the generation and sharing of world-class policy-relevant research on development, helping to strengthen capacity in the process. GDN has particular strengths in building in-country research capacity in developing countries and in interfacing research findings into policy. Founded in 1999, GDN is now headquartered in New Delhi, with regional offices in Cairo and Washington.
Initiative on Global Markets at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business
The massive global movements of capital, products and talent in the modern economy have generated confusion among policymakers and the public. The Initiative on Global Markets promotes better understanding of how these markets work, their effects, and the way they interact with policies and institutions.
South Asian Network of Economic Research Institutes
SANEI is a regional initiative to foster networking among economic research institutes in South Asia. Initiated in June 1998, SANEI seeks to establish strong research interlinkages among diverse economic research institutes in the region, with a view to making policy more informed.
World Bank Microeconomics of Growth Network
The Microeconomics of Growth Network is a global network of economists working on growth, directed by Robin Burgess and Chang-Tai Hsieh. It promotes and disseminates work at the intersection of development, industrial organization and trade, supporting two conferences per year, one in a developing country and one at the World Bank. These conferences get world-class growth researchers to speak to an audience of ministers, civil servants, business leaders, academics, think tanks and media in developing countries, and to policy and thought-leaders and the World Bank.