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Can participatory budgeting build government legitimacy and tax revenues in weak states?

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Seville 2025 and the power of local institutions

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Evaluating the environmental impacts of large-scale afforestation in Pakistan

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Bangladesh Energy Dashboard

30 Jun 2025
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The seventh annual DFI Frontier Markets Forum: Towards resilient and sustainable frontier markets

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The cashless journey in Rwanda: Building a digital economy for all

Mphatso Kumwenda
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From recognition to reciprocity

Tax talks: Seminars with substance

3 July – 4 August 2025 online
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AI, data and visions for the future at the IGC

AI, data and visions for the future at the IGC

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Artificial intelligence in national statistics: Insights from Zambia

Tyler Rossow
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India Sustainable Growth Hub call for proposals 2025

India Sustainable Growth Hub (ISGH): Call for proposals 2025

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Call for Abstracts - Industrial Policy for Africa Conference

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A fractured glass globe with people displaced to demonstrate the scale of forcibly displaced populations as part of World Refugee Day.

Responding to forced displacement in a fracturing world: How can we think differently?

Abdilahi Ali, Amna Mahmood
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A landscape of a wind farm at sunset demonstrates the urgent need renewable energy in Pakistan to overcome the electricity crisis.

Sustainable Pakistan: Addressing climate-driven demands and fiscal challenges for electricity

Tim Dobermann, Sajid Faiz Malik, Faraz Hayat, Zuhair Khan
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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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