Event

LSE Environment Week 2024

Initiative

Cities Spatial Model

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The International Growth Centre (IGC) works with policymakers in developing countries to promote inclusive and sustainable growth through pathbreaking research.

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Highlights

Photo by Prashanth Vishwanathan (IWMI).

White paper: Innovation, growth, and the environment

Robin Burgess, Stefano Caria, Tim Dobermann, Allegra Saggese
Synthesis paper
Cities Spatial Model

Cities Spatial Model: A Quantitative Spatial Equilibrium Model to guide urban planning, policy, and infrastructure investment decisions

Hugh Cole, Victoria Delbridge, Maria del Mar Gómez, Nick Tsivanidis, Román David Zárate
Policy toolkit
Solar panels in Rajasthan

IGC Evidence Papers - Energy and environment

Clare Balboni, Tim Dobermann, Michael Greenstone, Mar Reguant, Nicholas Ryan
Synthesis paper
Factory workers in Savar

IGC Evidence Papers - Firms, trade, and productivity

David Atkin, Stefano Caria, Dave Donaldson, Namrata Kala, Imran Rasul, Matthieu Teachout, Eric Verhoogen, Christopher Woodruff
Synthesis paper
Nairobi view

IGC Evidence Papers - Cities

Gharad Bryan, Edward Glaeser, Nick Tsivanidis
Synthesis paper
Ghana's Independence Square. Photo by C.C. Chapman Creative Commons

IGC Evidence Papers - State effectiveness

Oriana Bandiera, Michael Callen, Katherine E Casey, Eliana La Ferrara, Anders Jensen, Camille Landais, Matthieu Teachout, Shahid Vaziralli
Synthesis paper
ETH-22247 Cover

Sustainable coffee farming and improving smallholder livelihoods in Ethiopia

Tesfaye Berihun
Policy brief
Labourers work at a construction site of a road bridge in Lahore
Taxing effectively

Four ways in which technology and behavioural insights can improve tax collection in Pakistan

Hina Shaikh
Blog
Towards a peaceful energy transition July 2023 cover

Toward a peaceful energy transition

Sarah Logan, Amna Mahmood, Sanjana Srivastav, Sharon Beijer, Robert Pollock, Maria Yetano, Daniela Bosnjak, Johannes Schreuder
Policy paper
Cover image

Policy memos on climate priorities

Organisation document

Meet our 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 research engagements.

Nada Eissa

Associate Professor, Georgetown University
Sandra Sequeira

Sandra Sequeira

Associate Professor of Development Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Nava Ashraf

Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

Mar Reguant

Professor of Economics, Northwestern University
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