RESEARCH

iiG research aims to address the institutional constraints on achieving pro-poor growth in Africa and South Asia. The selection of themes and projects is driven by a dual objective: creating high quality academic research with a direct relevance for policy. The overarching research narrative is that differences in economic opportunities determine which institutions are likely to be important for pro-poor growth. More details can be found in the iiG Concepts and Framework section.

Phase 1: Improving Institutions for Growth

Research Phase 1 includes projects under the themes:

Accountability and Governance
Firm Development and Exports
Institutions for Inclusive Growth in Poor Settings

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Phase 2: Growth, Firms and Markets in Africa

An extension the phase 1 theme 'Firm, Development and Exports'. This phase splits into three sub-themes:

Firm Growth
Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Market Markets Work

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ALL PROJECTS

'Re-ravelling' the credit market in urban Tanzania: are property rights the answer to credit market failure?

A Quasi-Experimental Impact Evaluation of a Criminal Justice Paralegal Program in Sierra Leone

A Sustainable Transition: Food Aid and Income Generation in South Sudan

Accountability and Economic Performance

Aspiration failure and rural development in Ethiopia

Can ‘Seed Funding’ Help African Ideas Grow? The Value of Start-up Investment for Young Entrepreneurs in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia

Community-Based Justice and the Rule of Law in Liberia: A Field Experiment Using Mobile Paralegals

Contractual Relationships and Ethnic Violence: Theory and Evidence from Kenyan Flowers Exports

Culture and Incentives

Cyclones and development in India

Determinants of Leadership Turnover

Elections, Ethnic Polarisation and Managing Post-Electoral Conflict in Kenya

Electoral Competition and Deforestation: Evidence from Kenya

Empowering the Very Poor: The Ultrapoor Programme in Bangladesh

Evaluating the Impact of Relief Teachers on Academic Achievement in Kenyan Primary Schools

Explaining Insurance Demand: Lessons from Experiments in Ethiopia

Female Empowerment through Inheritance Rights: Evidence from India

Firm Growth and Performance Over Time

Growth in Manufactured Exports Across African States

Human Capital, Financial Capital, and the Economic Empowerment of Female Adolescents: Evidence from a Randomised Intervention in Uganda and Tanzania

India’s Employment Guarantee: Wages, Entitlements and Service Delivery

Information and Healthcare: A Randomised Experiment in India

Infrastructure and Development – The Political Economy of Road Placement in East Africa

Is Information Power? Using Cell Phones During an Election in Mozambique

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