International Growth Center (IGC)

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The IGC promotes sustainable growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. The IGC is directed and organised from hubs at the LSE and Oxford and comprises country offices across the developing world. The IGC was initiated and funded by UKaid from DFID.

IGC has active country programmes in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India (Central and Bihar), Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia and Rwanda and supports over seventy individual research projects on issues of governance, human capital, agriculture, infrastructure, trade, firm capability, state capacity, macroeconomics and political economy.

IGC has supported J-PAL on numerous projects around the world.