The Global Social Justice Program aims to generate debate on the distributional impacts – the winners and losers – of current policies and to provide
Global Governance
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
The Governance of Globalization Task Force seeks to differentiate topical ideas based on solid theory and evidence from views based on narrow interests and ideology.
It is widely recognized that the objectives and means by which intellectual property regulations are established will determine, in part, whether poor countries are able
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) works to achieve sustainable growth and prosperity for all of its 190 member countries. It does so by supporting economic
No public policy issue is of more importance than the structure and level of taxes. Developing countries face a specific set of challenges in trying
Economic growth in developing countries has long been associated with large-scale environmental degradation. Governments trying to achieve growth have too often under-invested in public goods
Theme Publications
Joseph Stiglitz
Martin Guzman
This paper analyses frameworks for the design of the rules for international trading, assuming that
- 06/12/2024
- Journal Articles
Around the world, people have become increasingly angry at the failures of their governments to
- 02/21/2023
- Policy Brief
Isabel Ortiz
Matthew Cummins
- 10/10/2022
- Working Paper
Isabel Ortiz
Sara Burke
Mohamed Berrada
Hernan Cortes Saenz
This book analyzes almost three thousand protests that occurred between 2006 and 2020 in 101
- 11/05/2021
- Book
Isabel Ortiz
Matthew Cummins
- 04/14/2021
- Working Paper
Lara Merling
Most advanced economies and some of the larger emerging markets have managed to finance a
- 03/30/2021
- The Commons (Opinions)