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Government decentralisation and reform in Myanmar’s roads sector
Myanmar is in the midst of an historic shift towards a more democratic and responsive government. In a radical departure from a highly centralised structure, the 2008 Constitution established 14 sub-national governments, with partially elected parliaments. In addition to their devolved political authority, a range of finance and administrative functions were ceded to this...
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Publication - Annual report
Annual report 2017-2018
This year, the IGC responded to pressing policy priorities and increased focus on countries affected by fragility – expanding our work to new places including Jordan and Somaliland. These engagements, alongside the wide reach of our initiative Cities that Work, have seen us influencing policy in 22 countries. In 2017–18, the IGC had 165 independently-audited...
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Bolstering firm productivity and growth through IGC research
A recent seminar organized by the International Growth Centre (IGC), in collaboration with the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), Pakistan Business Council (PBC) and Institute of Business Administration (IBA), brought together key stakeholders from the spheres of knowledge creation and policy formulation. The purpose of this gathering was to build bridges between academia,...
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Improving KP’s development outcomes
The idea that ICT facilitated and evidence-informed policymaking strengthens governance and improves service delivery is gaining momentum in the development discourse. In a first of its kind seminar held in Peshawar, solutions to removing governance and service delivery bottlenecks were presented and debated. Sessions on state capability, urban planning and growth...
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Workshop on programmes for poverty alleviation and inclusive growth: International and Myanmar experience
Economic growth by itself does not reduce poverty. Experience of many developing countries underscores the important role of targeted programmes in poverty alleviation and in making economic growth more inclusive. The Myanmar Development Institute (MDI), International Growth Centre (IGC), and Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) are co-hosting an event on programmes for...
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Event
Transforming Rwanda: Industrial policy for the next decade
The IGC, World Bank and Government of Rwanda are jointly organising a conference on industrial policy. This event aims to discuss how Rwanda can best use industrial policy to help realise its medium-term strategies, such as the National Strategy for Transformation and Vision 2050. The conference builds on a recent body of research conducted by the IGC and the World Bank,...
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IGC-Gates Foundation India Programme Launch
The IGC India country programmes are merging under a new partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to engage with government, research institutes, and other institutions in Bihar to build a strong, sustainable ecosystem of research and monitoring and evaluation in the state and throughout the country, and create the necessary local institutional capacity. The...
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Fighting corruption is dangerous: in conversation with Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Determined to root out the fraudulent claims and other schemes that drain the country of resources and ultimately deprive the poor of crucial services, the former Managing Director of the World Bank, Okonjo-Iweala found herself and her family targeted for reprisals designed to force her to drop her anti-corruption campaign. She refused to stop or to resign, even as her...
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Publication - Project Report
Self help groups: Evidence from India
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Event
Why and when top down management of foreign aid doesn’t work
Dan Honig, Assistant Professor of International Development at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) joins Jonathan Leape, Executive Director at IGC in conversation on how aid agencies can benefit from giving field agents the authority to use their own judgments to guide aid delivery. In Navigation by Judgment (Oxford University Press,...