The Center for Global Development (CGD) works to reduce global poverty and improve lives through innovative economic research that drives better policy and practice by the world's top decision makers. CGD strives for excellence and intellectual rigor in the belief that global prosperity starts with smart policy based on evidence.

Its work is nonpartisan and its recommendations are not influenced by funders. CGD is currently focused on the following areas critical to development progress:

• Global Health Policy
• Migration, Displacement, and Humanitarian Policy
• Sustainable Development Finance
• Technology
• Education
• Governments and Development

IDB Invest, a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, is a multilateral development bank committed to promoting the economic development of its member countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) through the private sector.

IDB Invest finances sustainable enterprises and projects to help secure financial outcomes and maximize the region’s economic, social, and environmental development. IDB Invest provides innovative financial solutions and advisory services to meet the needs of the private sector across various industries. The Development Effectiveness Division oversees IDB Invest’s Impact Management Framework, an end-to-end series of tools that support investments throughout their lifecycle, integrating impact and financial sustainability into portfolio management. As part of this role, IDB Invest produces knowledge products to guide the origination of projects across different sectors and conducts in-depth causal evaluations of selected investments. By generating and sharing rigorous evidence about what works and does not work from its investments, IDB Invest seeks to guide private sector development in the LAC region and help bolster the effectiveness of the broader impact investing industry as it continues to grow. Find out more

The International Growth Centre (IGC) aims to promote sustainable and inclusive growth in developing countries by providing demand-led policy advice based on frontier research. The IGC directs a global network of leading researchers and in-country teams in Africa and South Asia, and works closely with partner governments to generate high quality research and policy advice on key growth hallenges. IGC research focuses on building an effective state, increasing productivity in the private sector, making cities more productive and inclusive and promoting access to energy  – with the underlying aim of unlocking structural change and lifting people out of poverty.

The Firms, Trade and Productivity research programme at the IGC focuses on understanding the microprocesses needed to increasing productivity through structural changes in firms’ capabilities, the functioning of markets and how firms interact with world markets. For more information on the scope of this research agenda, please refer to our Evidence Paper (here is the link for this https://www.theigc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/IGC-Firms-evidence-paper-December- 2019.pdf) and the IGC’s Research Strategy (here is the link for this https://www.theigc.org/wp- content/uploads/2019/12/IGC-Research-Strategy-December-2019webfinal.pdf).

The Wheeler Institute for Business and Development at London Business School was created to research and amplify the role of business in tackling some of the hardest challenges in social and economic development.  We aim to improve lives through identifying what needs to change; linking and applying relevant business research and expertise; and through accelerating the adoption and scaling of solutions. We facilitate collaboration between local communities, business, policy makers, and researchers in identifying and promoting solutions.”

Our contact: Wheeler Institute wheelerinstitute@london.edu