Promoting sustainable growth in developing countries, focusing on what the centre has identified as the four key drivers of growth: state effectiveness, productive firms, liveable cities and reliable energy access.

Digital Pathways at Oxford explored the strengths and weaknesses of emerging practice around policy and regulation of digital technologies in developing nations, and provided concrete proposals to improve them, including the Digital Economy Toolkit.

The home of much of the research and policy work on African economic development issues at the University of Oxford, aiming to improve economic and social conditions in the poorest societies.