About iiG
New Resources
- Encouraging tax compliance in the informal sector, iiG Briefing Paper 24
- Understanding electoral violence: Lessons from Kenya, iiG Briefing Paper 23
- Attitudes towards citizenship in Nigeria, iiG Briefing Paper 22
- Do the Nigerian public trust their police?, iiG Briefing Paper 21
- How to improve knowledge and take-up of public services by the poor: The case of the RSBY National Health Insurance in India, iiG Briefing Paper 20
- Aspirations matter: Shaping aspirations can play a crucial role in enabling people to pull themselves out of poverty, iiG Briefing Paper 19
- When does community monitoring improve school performance?, iiG Briefing Paper 18
R4D database
A Portal to DFID Funded Research ... Read more>
Established in 2007, Improving Institutions for Growth (iiG) is a DfID Research Programme Consortium focusing on pro-poor growth and poverty reduction in Africa and South Asia.
iiG is organised as an international network of applied research institutes across Africa, Asia, the USA and Europe. It aims to generate new insights about institutions’ influence on pro-poor growth through an innovative programme of research, capacity building, and dissemination.
More details can be found in the iiG Concepts and Framework section.
Collaborating Partners
iiG compromises leading research institutions from the United Kingdom, Bangladesh, India, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria and Ethiopia.
The lead institution is the Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford.
other UK partners are:
- Oxford Department for International Development at Queen Elizabeth House (QEH), University of Oxford
- Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD), London School of Economics and Political Science
partners in Africa and South Asia:
- BRAC, (formerly known as Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee), Bangladesh
- Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore, India
- Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), Kampala, Uganda
- Department of Political Science, Ibadan University, Nigeria
- African Centre for Economic and Historical Studies (ACEHS), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Funding Partners
The iiG research is funded by the Department for International Development (DFID), The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the Open Society Institute.