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What will aid and development look like under UK Prime Minister Johnson?
As the Conservative Party leadership contest draws to a close, Britain has finally seen a new Prime Minister enter the famous black door of 10 Downing Street. It’s a surprise to few that Boris Johnson has won the race to succeed Theresa May, opening a new chapter in the nation’s Brexit saga. What lies ahead for the development sector? In the 2016 referendum, Johnson...
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Event
Financing Punjab’s cities: Land and property taxes workshop
IGC Pakistan and Cities that Work co-host an interactive private workshop on property taxes with the Government of Punjab with support from the Consortium for Development Policy Research (CDPR). The workshop supports the Government of Punjab’s tax reform agenda by highlighting the role of raising revenue from property and land. It also builds upon a critical policy...
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Should I stay or should I go? Managing populations with urban to rural migration incentives
Sydney you’ve got to let me know, should they stay or should they go. In 2011, Sydney, the largest city in Australia, asked its residents, should they stay or should they go? Despite regularly rated as one of the world’s top ten liveable cities, the government was offering residents AUD$7,000 (£4,500 or ~one month’s average wage) to move to the country’s rural...
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Multimedia Item - Video
Video: How can rising land values be used to finance urbanisation?
Paul Collier don how policymakers can raise revenues from land values in developing cities.
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Video: What is the importance of land rights for urban development?
Paul Collier explains the importance of land rights to developing cities
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Why do cities need to plan land use?
Paul Collier discusses the importance of land use in developing cities in the context of growing urban populations.
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News Item
Leading economic institutes join hands to bridge research-policy gap
The Tata Centre for Development at the University of Chicago and the International Growth Centre at the London School of Economics collaborate to better communicate evidence-based research for informed decision-making. Economics is crucial to addressing issues that challenge India’s ability to grow faster, sustainably, and inclusively. With the common mandate to...
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Blog post
Replenishing the rice bowl: Productivity and quality in Myanmar’s rice export industry
Myanmar’s rice industry can be reignited by reforms. However, key challenges need to be addressed for the country to re-establish itself in the international market. Myanmar once held the distinction of being the world’s largest exporter of rice, accounting for one-third of the global rice trade in 1934-1935. Post-independence nationalisation of the industry was...
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Person
Erum Haider
Erum Haider is a PhD Candidate at Georgetown University, Department of Government. Her dissertation examines the privatisation of public goods, particularly electricity, in large developing megacities. She examines the effect of privatization on attitudes towards redistribution and welfare, on which she has implemented a survey experiment in Karachi, Pakistan in July 2018....