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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The Quality of Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa: JICA-IPD Africa Task Force Meeting
04/11/17 - 04/12/17 Meeting
New York
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The Future of National Development Banks
09/15/16 - 09/16/17 Meeting
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Can Intra-African Trade Unlock Africa's Industrial Potential?
07/26/16 Speech
Mahe, Seychelles
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The Quality of Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa Workshop of the JICA-IPD Task Force on Africa
06/06/16 - 06/07/16 Meeting
New York, New York, United States
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Fiscal Governance at Times of Slow Growth
04/17/16 - 04/18/16 Meeting
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Latest Publications
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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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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
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Overcoming the Copenhagen Failure with Flexible Commitments
07/12/17 Network Paper
Joseph Stiglitz
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Report of the High-Level Commission on Carbon Prices
07/12/17 Policy Brief
Harald Winkler, P.R. Shukla, Elisabeth Moyer, Mari Pangestu, Adele Morris, Geoffrey Heal, Gaël Giraud, Emilio Lèbre la Rovere, Youba Sokona, Nicholas Stern, Joseph Stiglitz, Maosheng Duan, Ottmar Edenhofer
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The Welfare State in the Twenty-First Century
07/12/17 Network Paper
Joseph Stiglitz
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The Overselling of Globalization
07/12/17 Network Paper
Joseph Stiglitz
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The Coming Great Transformation
07/11/17 Network Paper
Joseph Stiglitz
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Group Lending, Joint Liability, and Social Capital: Insights From the Indian Microfinance Crisis
12/13/16 Journal Article
Joseph Stiglitz, Antara Haldar
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.