The IGC promotes sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. The IGC is directed and organized from hubs at the LSE and Oxford and comprises country offices across the developing world and a global network of  partners. The IGC was initiated by and is funded by DFID.

Our demand-driven policy work brings research to bear on the key issues facing policy-makers in our partner countries. IGC teams are active in:

Bangladesh

Ethiopia

Ghana

India-State of Bihar

Pakistan

Sierra Leone

Tanzania

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IGC research programmes address questions that are critical to understanding growth in the world’s poorest countries. There are ten programmes, directed and staffed by leading researchers:

• Agriculture
• Climate change, environment and natural resources
• Finance
• Firm capabilities
• Governance, accountability and political economy
• Human capital
• Infrastructure and urbanisation
• Macroeconomics
• State capabilities
• Trade