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IDRC’s Globalization, Growth, and Poverty program funds research into the uneven economic growth impacting the poor in developing countries.

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Forum on Competition and Development

We are organizing a Forum on Competition and Development before the International Competition Network's Annual Conference on May 17th, 2011 in The Hague. The theme is "Alliance building for a culture of compliance." Read the program...

IDRC launches a new program to support inclusive growth

IDRC’s Supporting Inclusive Growth program (SIG) is being launched on April 1, 2011. Our main program in the field of economic policy, this new program builds on our established work on competition policy, the role of ICTs in improving...

Call for Proposals: Labour Demand and Job Creation in Latin America

CEDLAS (Center for Distributive, Labor and Social Studies, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina) and IDRC recently launched a research project on "Labour markets for inclusive growth in Latin America". Within this project, CEDLAS is...

AERC’s 20th Anniversary Conference

The African Economic Research Consortium (AERC) held its 20th Anniversary Conference in Nairobi on September 15-17, on Natural Resource Management and Climate Change in Africa. Over 300 participants attended the conference, including African policy...

Microfinance institutions serving the poor in Central Africa

In 2006, a consortium of economic research centres in four Central African countries (Cameroon, Chad, Congo and Gabon) decided to assess the contribution of microfinance institutions to economic growth and poverty reduction in the Central African...