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Pricing decisions for maximising impact: Leveraging economies of scale in Bangladesh

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Why don’t households in Bangladesh adopt indoor air purifiers?

Call for papers: IGC/EGC Conference on Firms, Trade, and Development 2025

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Tax talks: Seminars with substance

7 May – 4 August 2025 online
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How rural migrants are integrating in Quelimane, Mozambique as a man on a stationary bicycle looks on at a colourful market with traders in the background.

The political economy of integrating rural migrants in a Mozambican city

Alex Armand, Wayne Sandholtz, Pedro Vicente
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Copper is a critical mineral for clean energy. Workers in Zambia moving copper at a warehouse in Zambia to be transported to ports such as Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Durban in South Africa.

The critical minerals opportunity

Shahrukh Wani
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Transition-critical minerals (Policy note)

Shahrukh Wani, Jonathan Leape, Tim Dobermann
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Call for applications: 24th Summer School in International and Development Economics

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Call for papers: Applied Development Economics Conference

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G²LM|LIC/path2dev/BREAD Conference on Development Economics

11–13 September 2025 Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore
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IGC welcomes Sir Andrew Steer as Professor in Practice

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Syrian children looking away walking in single file as they exit a class at a Jordan refugee camp, Zaatari, as a teacher waves them on.

Inclusive education and work permits: Transforming lives of Syrian refugees in Jordan

Sarah Winton
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Electrification in rural South Africa is slow, demonstrated by a man overlooking a kitchen using fire to cook.

Understanding the gradual adoption of electricity in rural South Africa

Taryn Dinkelman
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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