IPD’s Macroeconomics Task Force aims to provide a comprehensive framework for addressing key policy issues facing developing countries. These include discussions of the appropriate objectives,
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.
Mario Damill
Martin Rapetti
Guillermo Rozenwurcel
Yilmaz Akyüz
Gerard Caprio
Fernando Cardim de Carvalho
Jane D'Arista
Roberto Frenkel
Charles Goodhart
Bruce Greenwald
Jan Allen Kregel
Martin Rapetti
Perry G. Mehrling
Avinash Persaud
YV Reddy
Philip Turner
Marion Williams