Jonathan Leape
Jonathan Leape is the Executive Director of the IGC.
Jonathan Leape is an Associate Professor of Economics at the LSE. He was the founding director of the Centre for Research into Economics and Finance in Southern Africa, which was established at LSE in 1990 as an initiative of the Commonwealth Heads of Government to support the democratic transition in South Africa. He has advised a number of African governments, with a focus on tax and regulatory issues, and he served as Chief Academic Advisor on Taxation to the UK Government Economic Service. He was also director of the highly innovative “LSE100 The LSE Course: Understanding the Causes of Things” from 2009-13. His research interests centre on public economics, with a particular focus on taxation and regulation, including congestion charging. He has a PhD in Economics from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation Fellow, and degrees from Oxford University and Harvard University.
Content by Jonathan Leape
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Blog post
Empowering our cities to fight the pandemics of the future
Members of the Cities that Work council come together to delineate the critical challenges that need to be addressed to equip our cities to withstand pandemics. Cities accomplish many wonderful things - they enable people to exchange ideas, goods and services, and many other forms of collaboration. However, the fact that they serve as international and national...
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Publication - Policy paper
Note d'orientation COVID-19 d'IGC: Stratégies de confinement et soutien aux foyers vulnérables
Dans tous les pays en développement, les décideurs politiques sont confrontés à la nécessité de prendre des décisions rapides pour répondre à la crise liée au COVID-19, avec peu de données ou de conseil à leur disposition. L'IGC s'efforce d'accompagner ces processus de prise de décision en augmentant l'apport de données et en distillant des orientations...
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IGC’s response to COVID-19: A message from IGC’s Executive Director
The IGC’s overriding strategic priority in this period is to support developing country governments as they design and implement their COVID-19 policy response. We are focusing our research efforts, our country teams, and our policy relationships on providing this support. As the COVID-19 crisis has spread to developing countries, it has become clear that the impact on...
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Publication - Policy paper
IGC COVID-19 guidance note: Containment strategies and support for vulnerable households
Policymakers across the developing world need to make rapid decisions on their COVID-19 response with little available data or guidance. IGC is working to support these decision-making processes by increasing the supply of data and providing relevant policy guidance. This policy guidance note provides practical and specific policy guidance, based on the limited evidence...
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Publication - Growth Brief
Growth brief: Harnessing FDI for job creation and industrialisation in Africa
During the last decade and a half, African economies grew at nearly double the rate of the 1990s. However, the commodity boom obscured a key weakness in African economic performance – slow manufacturing growth. Productivity increases in Africa, after 2000, happened without the deep structural change that shifts labour from low to high productivity jobs (McMillan et...
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Publications Reader Item
Harnessing FDI for job creation and industrialisation in Africa
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Multimedia Item - Video
Dr. Jonathan Leape, International Growth Centre of LSE at BIGD Int'l Conference 2014
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Africa Growth Forum 2015: Jonathan Leape
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Blog post
Zero-Draft proposal on Sustainable Development Goals falls short
In November 2014, the IGC, along with 18 world-leading economists, sent an open letter to the Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon of the United Nations urging the UN to champion economic growth as the driving force in achieving meaningful and sustained poverty reduction. The newly published ‘Zero-draft’ of the Sustainable Development Goals has fallen disappointingly short of...
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Welcome Remarks (Pronab Sen and Jonathan Leape) IGC-ISI Development Policy Conference 2014
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Growth, Policy and Institutions: lessons from the Indian experience
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Energy and Growth: Facts and Consequences
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Video: South Asia Growth Conference 2014 - Jonathan Leape
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Video: Africa Growth Forum 2013 - Prof Jonathan Leape, IGC Executive Director