The Social Macroeconomics programme aims to fill a particularly important gap in macroeconomic analysis and policy: the influence of social forces on macroeconomic activity and vice versa.

Fostering research and debate into how global markets and institutions can better serve the needs of people in developing countries.

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.

The programme seeks to reconnect the value-generating process of business with ethical values. The approach draws on recent developments in evolutionary biology, and in our understanding of stochastic processes, to establish what, scientifically, can be said about human nature.

A national team of experts pioneering successful place-based renewal to address the challenges facing towns and cities in left-behind regions of the United Kingdom.

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.

Finding new ways for the public sector to commission services while achieving better social outcomes, and aligning the interests of local authorities and social investors and charities.

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.