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Publication - Policy Brief
Financial management and school performance: Evidence from Mozambique
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Publication - Project Report
Artisanal jade mining in Myanmar: Livelihood challenges and opportunities
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Publication - Working Paper
Estimating the fiscal impact of tariff reform in Uganda using TRIST
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Publication - Policy Brief
Policy brief: Coronavirus response policy needs and opportunities
This policy brief discusses essential medical, implementation, economic and social, and political considerations for the Government of Myanmar (GoM), civil society organisations (CSOs), and religious leaders in collaboratively responding to the challenges posed by coronavirus to Myanmar. The issues explored here are explained in more detail in an accompanying full-length...
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Publication - Miscellaneous
Policy report: Coronavirus policy response needs and options for Myanmar
Coronavirus is now confirmed to be present in Myanmar, and the actual number of infections is likely to be considerably higher than just the small number of cases (five as of March 27th, 2020) confirmed so far. Within hours of the presence of coronavirus being confirmed in Myanmar, some residents in Yangon were engaging in panic-buying, a small indication of some of the...
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Publication - Miscellaneous
Creating opportunity from crisis: Raising worker productivity during the pandemic
Rwanda’s coronavirus “lockdown”, which began on Sunday 22nd March 2020, requires that a large number of people suddenly work from home. This has become increasingly common globally: across the EU, around 17% of employees work from outside their employer’s physical premises using ICT tools; however, working from home (WFH) is a much newer phenomenon among...
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Publication - Project Report
Electricity is not an entitlement: How social norms constrain access to electricity
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Publication - Project Report
Analysis of effective tax rates for CIT and PIT in Myanmar
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Publication - Policy Brief
Civil service reform and performance management in Ghana and Zambia since 1990
Both Zambia and Ghana have tried repeatedly since 1990 to link civil servants’ performance to incentives by introducing performance management systems. Despite these efforts, there have been no cases in either country where individual performance has been successfully and sustainably linked to rewards or sanctions. To understand patterns of individual performance,...
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...