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Grand Renaissance Dam Ethiopia

Ethiopia’s economic transformation ↗

Tewodros Gebrewolde featured in CNN's special on Ethiopia's economic transformation, providing context on Ethiopia's remarkable economic progress over the past two decades.
CNN

The world’s most unaffordable housing is not where you think ↗

Cities in developing countries such as India, Indonesia and the Philippines are gaining hundreds of millions of people. This urbanisation is only getting started.
The Economist
IT project in southern Africa

Africa’s new economic transformation: More than manufacturing ↗

The IGC's Richard Newfarmer explains why structural transformation to accelerate growth is about more than manufacturing.
Brookings
Signing the EIIL MoU

IGC, LSE and Tata Power launch innovation lab to accelerate India’s energy transition

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UK Research and Innovation awards IGC £1 million for COVID-19 economic evidence

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Indian woman with face protective mask reading news on tablet. by CR Shelare / Moment / via Getty Images
IGC in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter

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New grant from The Rockefeller Foundation supports efforts to better address state fragility

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Under COVID-19 lockdowns, 32 million Africans would be severely food deprived, says new research

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Members of the Mngaro Mtaani group demonstrate hand washing to residents as a preventive measure against the spread of Coronavirus at Baba Dogo slum in Nairobi. There are more than 2.5 million people living in slums across Nairobi city who besides the pandemic, may badly suffer social-economic effects. Kenyan government has announced possibilities of a lockdown. Majority of the dwellers live under two dollars a day, this without running water, poor road network and food shortage.
Low income countries need different lockdowns to prevent severe deprivation and hunger, say top economists and health experts

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