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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

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
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,
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
Conventional wisdom has held that trade liberalization leads to increased economic growth, but this idea is often misleading. Liberalization has frequently failed to trigger economic
Migration is one of the most hotly debated topics in today's globalized world. Whereas the movement of technology and capital has become increasingly more open,
The discovery of oil or other valuable resources has been associated with devastating political conflict and economic setbacks, particularly in the poorest countries where pre-existing

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