The International Growth Centre (IGC) aims to promote sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research.
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Industrialisation through natural resources: The...The horticulture, wood and furniture industries in Tanzania are still too small and inefficient. While the country lacks a concrete industrial strategy for these industries, a...
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Policy brief: Using administrative data to measure...Since 2018, doctors and administrators from the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and academics from the University of Oxford have been working together to understand which health...
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Assessing sectoral linkages in the Zambian economyThe Government of the Republic of Zambia (GRZ) has since 1965, endeavoured to minimise the country’s dependence on copper mining through a melange of policies and incentives...
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Expanding opportunities in India’s labour market:...India has one of the youngest populations in an ageing world. By 2020, the median age in the country will be 28 (compared to 37 in China and 45 in Western Europe). Nearly...
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Mobilising local leaders to rebuild the social compactThe social compact between citizen and state, whereby a citizen pays taxes and receives public goods and services, is a critical link in political accountability and the...
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Featured Researchers
The IGC works with hundreds of top academics in leading universities around the world. These academics are experts in their fields and are able to provide insights on our four major research themes: state, firms, cities and energy.
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Esther Duflo
Abdul Latif Jameel Professor of Poverty Alleviation and Development Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abhijit Banerjee
Ford Foundation International Professor of Economics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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