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Phase 2 of the New Inter-University Graduate Program (NPTCI) was launched in Cotonou, Benin, in April 2012. The Ministry of Development, Economic Analysis and Forecasting hosted a ceremony to celebrate IDRC support of this phase and the signing of...
This year’s issue of Asia Research News features five IDRC projects:
increasing millet production in Asia (pg 4)
milkfish breeding in the Philippines (pg 5)
saving lives, money, and ecosystems with environmental economics (pg 14)
boosting...
Carolina Trivelli, co-leader of a component of IDRC's Multi-donor Research Platform on Social Protection, Financial Inclusion and ICTs project, was appointed Minister of Peru's new Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion on October 21...
Around the world, the age of the entire population is changing. These changes will affect economic growth and equity across generations. The fastest-growing age group is working-age adults. The proportion of children is declining because of low...
John Okidi, Senior Program Officer with the Think Tank Initiative, was interviewed by the BBC World Service in July 2011. Listen to him discuss the importance of supporting think tanks in Africa.
A special issue of the journal, Information Technologies and International Development (ITID), features several articles by IDRC-supported researchers on mobile telephony and development. The researchers are from LIRNEasia, a regional ICT policy and...
Radio Canada International interviewed Martin Benavides, Executive Director of the Group for the Analysis of Development (GRADE), a Think Tank Initiative (TTI) grantee, and TTI's María Urbina-Fauser about the Initiative. Listen to the interview...
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...
The Nouveau programme de troisième cycle interuniversitaire (NPTCI), in partnership with IDRC, announces a third call for applications for the NPTCI-IDRC Doctoral Research Awards in Economics. These awards will be granted to doctoral students...
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...
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