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Credit: Eric Miller
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This roundtable explored development finance institutions and their linkages with job creation and structural change.
Only productivity change, structural transformation and innovation can secure development in the long-run. A low-income country (LIC) that doesn’t increase the level of productivity in its economy will eventually limit its own growth and income-generating potential, and find it difficult to navigate health challenges and environmental constraints. It may well fail to make the transition from a LIC to a middle income country (MIC).
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Credit: Eric Miller
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Given the continued relevance of Aid for Trade (AfT) and a growing emphasis on the role of the private sector in development, the importance of clearly demonstrating development impacts on the ground is more important than ever. This public event builds upon the influential work of the ODI’s International Economic Development Group and follows the AfT Policy Dialogue, organised by the OECD in collaboration with ODI.
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Credit: Ray Witlin
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A special lunchtime seminar to launch the Second Call for research for a new programme on economic growth in low income countries
This time last year I wrote about how uncertainty and risk are shaping not only everyday events but also how we think about development and humanitarian practice. As I sit down to reflect on the challenges ahead in 2013, it feels a bit like Groundhog Day. Much of the uncertainty of last year remains – the long shadow of the global financial crisis, the fiscal crunch in Europe, the growing number and intensity of extreme weather events, and the fracturing trajectory of the increasingly deadly Syrian conflict.
