IPD’s Africa Task Force focuses on the special challenges facing economic development and poverty in Africa after the continent’s disappointing economic performance over the past
Development
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
Despite a lack of evidence, capital market liberalization was pushed forward by the IMF during the 1980s and 1990s as a means of stimulating economic
China is entering a critical phase in its move to a market economy, in which it will establish the basic institutional foundations of a market
IPD’s Climate Change Task Force is dedicated to advancing the discourse on what would constitute the least unfair bargaining equilibrium on a climate change agreement,
The economies of China and Latin America have become pillars of growth in today’s global economy. China’s lending to Latin America has reached $100 billion
IPD’s Poverty Task Force seeks to analyze the effects of economic policies on poverty, and examine alternative policies to promote poverty reduction. Poverty concerns are
Theme Publications
Jayati Ghosh
Care work is already one of the most essential forms of human work across the
- 09/09/2022
- Policy Brief
Jayati Ghosh
Care work is already one of the most important forms of human work across the
- 09/09/2022
- Policy Brief
Jayati Ghosh
What renders the measurement of the care economy and of the extent of care work
- 09/09/2022
- Policy Brief
Yana van der Meulen Rodgers
Nannies, home health aides, home attendants and housecleaners face significant challenges in the United States.
- 04/20/2021
- The Commons (Opinions)
Joseph Stiglitz
José Antonio Ocampo
Martin Guzman
The role of exchange rate policies in economic development is still largely debated. This column
- 02/21/2019
- Journal Articles
Paola Arias Gomez
Michael Brei
Lavinia Barros de Castro
Oscar Dancourt
Renzo Jimenez
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Key issues such as understanding how development banks work, what their main aims are, and
- 10/24/2018
- Book