Task Forces
IPD’s Task Forces gather experts on specific policy issues from the policy, academic, and civil society communities to outline the best ideas and policy alternatives available to decision-makers. Our Task Forces represent an international collaborative effort aimed at enhancing the quality of policy dialogue in developing countries on key economic issues. In convening these teams, IPD fosters the kind of policy analysis that is required if developing countries are to forge strategies that will promote sustainable, equitable, and democratic growth. Each group is co-directed by representatives from both the global North and South.
Past Events
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2022 IMF/WB Annual Meetings - Side Event “Winds of change: the future of tax reforms in Latin America”
10/13/22 Meeting
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2022 IMF/WB Annual Meetings - Side Event “Avoiding Austerity in a Time of Compounding Crises”
10/12/22 - 10/12/22 Meeting
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Launch of the End Austerity Campaign and Report
09/28/22 Meeting
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World Protests: A Study of Key Protest Issues in the 21st Century
11/09/21 Meeting
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Fiscal Space for Universal Health and Social Protection after the COVID19 Pandemic: How to Prevent Austerity
10/02/20 Meeting
Latest Publications
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End Austerity: A Global Report on Budget Cuts and Harmful Social Reforms in 2022-25
10/10/22 Working Paper
Isabel Ortiz, Matthew Cummins
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Recognising and rewarding care work: the role of public policies
09/09/22 Policy Brief
Jayati Ghosh
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The structure of care work and inequalities among care workers
09/09/22 Policy Brief
Jayati Ghosh
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Defining Care: conceptualisations and particularities
09/09/22 Policy Brief
Jayati Ghosh
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World Protests
11/05/21 Book
Isabel Ortiz, Sara Burke, Mohamed Berrada, Hernan Cortes Saenz
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Global Austerity Alert: Looming Budget Cuts in 2021-25 and Alternative Pathways
04/14/21 Working Paper
Isabel Ortiz, Matthew Cummins
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Austerity: the New Normal
10/03/19 Working Paper
Isabel Ortiz, Matthew Cummins
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The Welfare State in The Twenty-First Century
07/12/18 Working Paper
Joseph Stiglitz
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The Welfare State Revisited
05/22/18 Book
José Antonio Ocampo (Editor), Joseph Stiglitz (Editor)
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Globalization and Its Discontents Revisited
12/01/17 Book
Joseph Stiglitz
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A Rule of Law for Sovereign Debt
12/01/17 Link
Joseph Stiglitz, Martin Guzman
IPD’s Task Forces gather experts on specific policy issues from the policy, academic, and civil society communities to outline the best ideas and policy alternatives available to decision-makers. Our Task Forces represent an international collaborative effort aimed at enhancing the quality of policy dialogue in developing countries on key economic issues. In convening these teams, IPD fosters the kind of policy analysis that is required if developing countries are to forge strategies that will promote sustainable, equitable, and democratic growth. Each group is co-directed by representatives from both the global North and South.
Our Task Forces summarize the literature on development issues, lay out alternative positions, and present the landscape of knowledge in a non-partisan, policy-relevant manner. The purpose is to ensure that decision-makers have a comprehensive catalogue of the theory and evidence that underlies each central issue, so that policymakers can make the best decisions given all available knowledge, while laying the groundwork for serious research on economic alternatives in development economics.
The debates and ideas set forth in our Task Forces help to improve policymaking, but also serve as fertile ground for new ideas within the academic and research community. By identifying areas of disagreement, and reframing issues in a broader way, research can be directed at critical areas where improved knowledge and insights would be particularly valuable in shaping policy dialogue.