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Overview
IPD’s Themes gather experts on specific policy issues from the policy, academic, and civil society communities to outline the best ideas and policy alternatives available to decision-makers. Our Task Forces represent an international collaborative effort aimed at enhancing the quality of policy dialogue in developing countries on key economic issues.
In convening these teams, IPD fosters the kind of policy analysis that is required if developing countries are to forge strategies that will promote sustainable, equitable, and democratic growth. Each group is co-directed by representatives from both the global North and South. Our Task Forces summarize the literature on development issues, lay out alternative positions, and present the landscape of knowledge in a non-partisan, policy-relevant manner.
The purpose is to ensure that decision-makers have a comprehensive catalogue of the theory and evidence that underlies each central issue, so that policymakers can make the best decisions given all available knowledge, while laying the groundwork for serious research on economic alternatives in development economics.
The debates and ideas set forth in our Task Forces help to improve policymaking, but also serve as fertile ground for new ideas within the academic and research community. By identifying areas of disagreement, and reframing issues in a broader way, research can be directed at critical areas where improved knowledge and insights would be particularly valuable in shaping policy dialogue.
Theme Task Forces
Decentralization is on the policy agenda all over the world. Not only is it squarely in the forefront of the development debate throughout Latin America,
Privatization of large state-owned enterprises was a radical and new policy implemented late last century. While right wing governments engaged in privatization to minimize the
Theme Publications
Joseph Stiglitz
The book develops ideas of a modern European welfare state, addresses the widely known market
- 04/03/2019
- Book
José Antonio Ocampo
The Welfare State Revisited takes on major debates about social well-being, considering the merits of
- 05/22/2018
- Book
Designing the twenty-first-century welfare state is part of a broader debate redefining the role of
- 07/12/2017
- Network Papers
In The Euro, Nobel Prize–winning economist and best-selling author Joseph E. Stiglitz dismantles the prevailing
- 07/26/2016
- Book
Martin Guzman
Pablo Gluzmann
- 10/02/2015
- Working Paper
In The Great Divide, Joseph E. Stiglitz expands on the diagnosis he offered in his
- 05/05/2015
- Book