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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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Publication - Policy Brief
La prise de décisions politiques en période d'incertitude : le confinement intelligent avec apprentissage actif
La pandémie de COVID-19 entraîne une crise sanitaire et économique d'une ampleur sans précédent pour cette génération. Avec des preuves limitées sur lesquelles s'appuyer, il est difficile de comprendre quelles politiques utiliser. Face à cette incertitude, des fermetures généralisées ont été imposées dans de nombreux pays développés et en...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Smart containment: How low-income countries can tailor their COVID-19 response
Low-income countries will have a much harder time putting their economies in a “medically induced coma” in response to the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19). They are home to many of the extreme poor, who, for the most part, have no option but to live in overcrowded conditions with limited access to clean water and sanitation. They work in the informal sector, often for a...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Social protection in fragile states
Despite various challenges, social protection is more important than ever right now for fragile countries that already house a large share of the world’s poor. The World Bank is estimating that the COVID-19 crisis has the potential to push about 40-60 million more people into extreme poverty, erasing decades of anti-poverty efforts. The World Bank has documented that...
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Publication - Policy Brief
Policymaking in uncertain times: Smart containment with active learning (Arabic version)
تؤدي جائحة فيروس كورونا المستجد (COVID-19) إلى كوارث صحية واقتصادية بدرجة غير مسبوقة على هذا الجيل، ومع محدودية الأدلة التي يمكن الاعتماد عليها، يصعب فهم السياسات التي يجب استخدامها. في ظل هذه الأوقات...
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Publication - Working Paper
Tracking the economic consequences and responses to COVID-19 in Sierra Leone
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Publication - Working Paper
How should policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic differ in the developing world?
The COVID-19 pandemic has already led to dramatic policy responses in most advanced economies, and in particular sustained lockdowns matched with sizeable transfers to much of the workforce. This paper provides a preliminary quantitative analysis of how aggregate policy responses should differ in developing countries. To do so we build an incomplete-markets...
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Publication - Policy note
Easing the burden of Covid-19 in Uganda: Lowering food prices by reducing tariffs
This note explores a measure to ease economic pressure from COVID-19 in Uganda: the elimination of high import tariffs on four important agricultural products, namely rice, vegetable oil, sugar and wheat/wheat flour. Using a dataset on household income derived from as well as expenditure on agricultural products, the researcher estimates that eliminating tariffs on...
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Publication - Working Paper
Regional economic spillovers from the South Sudanese civil war: Evidence from formal and informal cross border trade
This paper examines the impact of the South Sudanese civil war on trade in East Africa. In a first step, we employ a gravity model to examine the impact of civil conflict on the trade of neighbouring countries in a general sense and conduct a counterfactual simulation for the South Sudanese case.
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Publication - Policy Brief
A road map for e-mobility transition in Rwanda
Electric vehicles (EV) are gaining popularity among both governments and the private sector globally as an energy efficient mobility technology and the Government of Rwanda (GoR) embraces the fact that their expansion is now inevitable, as they aim to scale up their nascent e-moto industry. The researchers recommend e-mobility be implemented in the context of a wider...
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...