International Economic Development and Institutions

Development economics has been a long-standing research strength of the Department, with innovative work ranging from rural poverty and enterprise technology, through macroeconomic policy and aid strategy, to international trade and foreign investment. This work is characterised by an emphasis on the testing of analytical models on primary empirical data.

In recent years, a new focus on the international economic institutions has emerged, addressing issues of financial governance, international taxation and environmental regulation.

The research groups working on this theme are the International Growth Centre (IGC), jointly with the Oxford Department of Economics and London School of Economics; and the Technology and Management for Development Centre (TMD). There are also a number of senior scholars in the Department with individual research projects in this field.

• The Macroeconomics of Aid

• Rural e-service: Participatory Co-design of Software and Business Systems

• China and the Evolution of Global Manufactures Prices, 1988-2006

• Understanding International Diplomacy: Theory, Practice and Ethics

• Diplomacy and International Change: A Study of Deontological Rationality

• The Social Life of Global Finance

• Reducing Armed Violence with NGO Governance

• Income Taxation, International Tax Coordination and Development Finance

• Measurement of Long-term Economic and Social Development in Latin America

• Drought and Informal Insurance Groups: A Randomised Intervention of Index-based Rainfall Insurance in Rural Ethiopia

• ICRISAT New Survey 2001-2007

• Transportation Costs, Food Markets, and Structural Transformation in Tanzania

• Africa: Policies for Prosperity

• Managing Macroeconomic Risks in Developing Countries: Policies and Institutions

• Tanzania Country Research Programme: International Growth Centre

• The Diffusion of Innovation in Low-income Countries

• The Integration of the Rising Powers into the Global Innovation System

• The Role of Management Practices in Closing the Productivity Gap

• Improving Urban Water Governance Through Mobile Finance Innovations

• Community Governance of Local Public Goods in Fragile States: Community Participation, Social Services Provision and Local and National Governance in Burundi and South Kivu (DRC)

• Prosperity Within Valued Limits: Novel Governance Initiatives Stimulating Moral Human Development Shifts and Sustainable Development in a Globalizing World

• Power and Accumulation in Food Grain Markets: A Case Study of the Pakistani Punjab

• Giants Who Bite Their Chains?

• The Development of Agrarian Politics in Africa

• University-firms Technology Transfer in Chile: Panel Data and Case Study Analysis

• States and the Creation of ICSID

• Transnational Corporations and Local Suppliers in Malaysia: An Entrepreneurial Approach to the Study of Industrial Linkage Creation

• Industrial Cluster Relocation: Intra- and Extra-Cluster Linkages Using Social Network Analysis

• How Things Work: An Investigation into the Political and Economic Practices of the Pakistani Intermediate Classes

• Morals, Markets and Myths of Modernity: A Case Study on the Financial Sector in Jamaica

• Economic and Political Aspects of the Russian Financial Crisis

• The Politics of Markets: A Critique of the Knowledge Economy

• The Return of High Skilled Migrants, Knowledge Transfers and Organizational Development: Three Case Studies in New Delhi, India

• Estimates of the Welfare Impact of Climate Change in Rural West Africa

• Christopher Adam
  Professor of Development Economics

• Corneliu Bjola
  University Lecturer in Diplomatic Studies

• Stefan Dercon
  University Professor of Development Economics

• Valpy FitzGerald
  Professor of International Development Finance

• Joerg Friedrichs
  University Lecturer in Politics

• Xiaolan Fu
  University Lecturer in Development Studies

• John Gledhill
  Departmental Lecturer in the Politics of Security Governance

• Rodney Bruce Hall
  University Lecturer in International Political Economy

• Simone Lombardini
  Research Assistant in Quantitative Development Economics

• Diego Sanchez-Ancochea
  University Lecturer in the Political Economy of Latin America

• Nicolas Van de Sijpe
  Departmental Lecturer in Development Economics

• Adrian Wood
  Professor Emeritus of International Development

• New Project to Study Impact of Mobile Technologies on Water Governance in Tanzania Wins £12,000 Skoll Funding (16 May, 2012)

• Presentations from Oxford Forum on China and World Economy Now Available (15 May, 2012)

• Oxford Forum on China and World Economy to Take Place May 9 (11 Apr, 2012)

• DPhil Student Contributes Chapter to IMF Book on Indonesia and Global Volatility (23 Feb, 2012)

• Four ODID Academics Participate in Korea Foundation Seminar on Reforming Global Economic Governance (14 Feb, 2012)

• MSc GGD Students Launch Diplomatic Speaker Lecture Series (1 Feb, 2012)

• New Working Paper from IGC Tanzania Country Research Programme (27 Jan, 2012)

• New Special Issue and Special Section on Innovation in Emerging Economies (29 Nov, 2011)

• Stefan Dercon Gives Keynote at Microinsurance Conference in Brazil (29 Nov, 2011)

• Xiaolan Fu Wins GBP450,000 ESRC Award to Research Innovation in LICs (21 Nov, 2011)

• Xiaolan Fu Edits New Book on China's Role in Global Economic Recovery (4 Nov, 2011)

• PTMD-led Programme Using Mobile Phones Helps Farmers in India (10 Jul, 2011)