Join us for a film screening and of documentary film 'Sangama' and Q&A with Director Sunanda Bhat. The film offers a behind-the-scenes look at how a powerful people’s movement mobilizes voters nationw...

Cities that Work turns 10 with an online Masterclass on a decade of urban policy lessons and the launch of its new Practitioners' Handbook.

A new J-PAL Policy Insight reviewing 30 studies across low- and middle-income countries finds that mobile phones can improve student learning, teacher performance, and parental engagement, but only wh...

In an Ethiopian business plan competition, judges voted less for strong female candidates over the course of repeated assessments, but a simple reminder of the organisation’s commitment to equal opportunity offset this decline.

The 2026 What Works Hub for Global Education Conference explores foundational learning policy & programme implementation in the Global South.

The journal of the Centre for the Study of African Economies. Publishes rigorous economic analysis, focused entirely on Africa, for Africans and anyone interested in the continent.

The Bank of Tanzania in collaboration with the IGC, will host a public lecture with Professor Christopher Adam on debt, monetary policy and stability in Tanzania.

The brief examines how research supported property tax reform in Sierra Leone to strengthen local revenue and governance.

Nepal’s civil service serves political parties more than the people – and it is a drag on growth and development. The new government has a once-in-a-generation chance to depoliticise the civil service...

Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA) and the Southern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit (SALDRU), with co-sponsorship from the African Centre ...

Attend the Firms, Trade, and Development conference at Yale University on September 10–11, 2026, hosted by IGC and Yale EGC, in person or online.

The Bank of Tanzania in collaboration with the IGC, will host a public lecture with Professor Christopher Adam on debt, monetary policy and stability in Tanzania.

A new J-PAL Policy Insight reviewing 30 studies across low- and middle-income countries finds that mobile phones can improve student learning, teacher performance, and parental engagement, but only wh...

YouTube video by Centre for the Study of African Economies

It’s often said that Nigeria has a health financing gap, but poor outcomes also reflect ineffective use of existing funds. Improving health’s background plumbing, recognising the huge scale of out-of-...

YouTube video by Centre for the Study of African Economies

Mobile phones are a scalable, low-cost platform to improve learning by engaging students, teachers, and parents in hard-to-reach settings.

Low-income countries are facing deeper shocks, but are refusing to restructure. Why?

YouTube video by Centre for the Study of African Economies

In Côte d'Ivoire, public sector jobs attract highly skilled graduates not primarily through wages but through non-wage amenities such as job security, lower stress, and predictable working conditions....

Abstract. This article estimates the effect of sex education in a large-scale cluster randomized trial covering a third of Botswana that varied both the me