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Publication - Project Report
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on vulnerable households in Bangladesh
In order to understand the real-time impact of the pandemic on vulnerable households across Bangladesh, Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), in partnership with the Underprivileged Children’s Education Programme (UCEP), conducted a two rounds of surveys with parents across Bangladesh in July and December 2020. These are parents who had intended to enrol their children in...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Real-time economic impacts of COVID-19 in Ghana
To better inform policy decisions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, this project collected high-frequency data and produced economic indicators in real-time during the crisis. We focused on two economic indicators: weekly urban employment statistics and monthly electricity usage. Employment statistics are calculated based on weekly online surveys and electricity...
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Publication - Project Report
Monthly summary of the economic situation in Ghana
This report primarily focuses on two main economic indicators: employment and electricity usage, drawn from weekly surveys of urban employment and monthly data on electricity distribution.
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Publication - Policy Brief
Rwandan coffee exports during COVID-19: Challenges and opportunities for increased resilience
The decade before the COVID-19 pandemic was characterised by significant improvement in the quality of Rwandan coffee and increased export revenues. To understand the implications of the COVID-19 crisis for the Rwandan coffee sector, the IGC (in collaboration with NAEB and CEPAR) conducted a survey of exporters between June and December 2020. The findings suggest...
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Publication - Project Report
Rwandan coffee exports during COVID-19: Challenges and opportunities for increased resilience
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Publication - Policy Brief
Macroeconomic policy reform options for Sudan (ARABIC)
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Publication - Policy Brief
Macroeconomic policy reform options for Sudan
Sudan is in an unsustainable economic position with high and rising inflation, fiscal and balance of payments deficits and negative GDP growth. The situation needs urgent intervention to stabilise the economy and reverse the deterioration. One of the major causes of this instability is high and increasing subsidies, notably for fuel, which are unaffordable and are...
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Publication - Project Report
Households' attitudes towards school reopening during COVID-19 in Ethiopia: Evidence from phone surveys
This report highlights key results from a phone survey of households in Addis Ababa and Oromia during the winter of 2020. Results focus on the ways in which labour market and educational outcomes were affected by COVID-19.
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Publication - Policy Brief
Households’ attitudes towards schools reopening during COVID-19 in Ethiopia
This policy brief reports on the findings from a phone survey focusing on educational outcomes and plans in Ethiopia and how they were affected by COVID-19. The survey was conducted with households living in Addis Ababa and neighbouring areas of Oromia in the fall of 2020. It documents how parents and children responded to the reopening of schools. Prior to...
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Publication - Working Paper
Export incentives and artisanal gold exports: Supplier level evidence from Ethiopia
This study aims to evaluate the performance of the gold export sector in Ethiopia to identify the main challenges the sector is facing; to assess impacts of the incentive mechanisms the NBE avails to suppliers of gold; and to suggest policy recommendations to improve the performance of the sector.
Publication - Miscellaneous
Little Book of Growth Ideas
Between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of the world living in extreme poverty more than halved as economic growth lifted millions of people out of poverty. Building on this progress, the UN Global Goals ambitiously aim to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030. The International Growth Centre (IGC) believes that inclusive economic growth is the only route to achieving...