ABOUT US

Established in 2007, Improving Institutions for Growth (iiG) is a DfID Research Programme Consortium focusing on pro-poor growth and poverty reduction in Africa and South Asia.

iiG is organised as an international network of applied research institutes across Africa, Asia, the USA and Europe. It aims to generate new insights about institutions' influence on pro-poor growth through an innovative programme of research, capacity building, and dissemination. The iiG programme closed in 2016. DfID was dissolved in 2020 when the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office was created.

More details can be found in the iiG Concepts and Framework section.

CONCEPTS AND FRAMEWORKS

This page discusses how the issues of growth and especially pro-poor growth form part of the iiG research programme, what institutional constraints on growth are explored, and how overall the multiple-individual iiG projects address different aspects of these issues.

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PEOPLE

Researchers from different institutions across the world.

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COLLABORATING PARTNERS

iiG compromises leading research institutions from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, India, Kenya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Uganda, and the United Kingdom.

Lead Institution

Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford

United Kingdom

Oxford Department of International Development, University of Oxford

United Kingdom

Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD)

London School of Economics and Political Sciences, UK

BRAC, (formerly known as Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee)

Bangladesh

Centre for Economic and Historical Studies (ACEHS)

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC)

Bangalore, India

Department of Political Science, Ibadan University

Nigeria

Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC)

Kampala, Uganda

Lahore School of Economics (LSE)

Lahore, Pakistan

FUNDERS

Department for International Development (DfID), UK Government

(now closed and replaced by the FCDO)

Hewlett Foundation

OPEN Society Foundations

(formely OPEN Society Institute)

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