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Our work on today's economic challenges

Inflation, rising interest rates, and global supply chain disruptions are some of the problems many nations face, as well as mounting debt and income inequality post-COVID. Governments must balance growth with sustainability and equity. Our work exposes the most pressing economic policy challenges around the world today.

PROGRAMMES AND PROJECTS

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Foundation of Values and Value Programme

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Home Win and Place-Based Renewal

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Digital Pathways at Oxford

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Social Cooperation Research Hub of Rebuilding Macroeconomics

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The Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance

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Empowering the Poor: The Behavioural and Social Foundations of Poverty Reduction, and Evolving the Role of Multilateral Responses

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Rethinking African Paths to Industrial Development (RAPID)

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Centre for the Study of African Economies

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International Growth Centre

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Global Economic Governance Programme

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Social Macroeconomics

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15 November 2023

Award for Kate Orkin’s role in keeping millions out of poverty

Faculty member Kate Orkin has won the ESRC award for Outstanding Public Policy Impact, for her role advising the South African government during COVID-19 and beyond. She influenced £4.87 billion in spending that helped 28.5 million people and saved 5.5 million from extreme poverty.

PROGRAMMES AND PROJECTS

Foundation of Values and Value Programme

Home Win and Place-Based Renewal

Digital Pathways at Oxford

Social Cooperation Research Hub of Rebuilding Macroeconomics

The Oxford Martin Programme on African Governance

Empowering the Poor: The Behavioural and Social Foundations of Poverty Reduction, and Evolving the Role of Multilateral Responses

Rethinking African Paths to Industrial Development (RAPID)

Centre for the Study of African Economies

International Growth Centre

Global Economic Governance Programme

Social Macroeconomics

LATEST NEWS

Award for Kate Orkin’s role in keeping millions out of poverty

Training the UK’s Foreign Office staff in economics with a new bespoke course

New online course: Economics for Public Policy

VOICES BLOG

Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile: a tribute

'Prolonged lockdowns are a route to poverty': MPP alumnus interviews Professor Sir Paul Collier

Building back better requires a new approach to China’s Belt and Road Initiative

PUBLICATIONS

The Crossroads of Geopolitics: The Intersection of Security and Economic Interests – Policymaking in a More Complex and Uncertain World

Capability Reform: A Systematic and Sustained Strategy for the Intersection of Economics and Security

Beyond the Silos: Analytical Capabilities at the Intersection of Economics and Security in 20th Century Britain

The Fourth Fighting Service: The Early Development of British Economic Statecraft

Towards a Green Trade and Investment Strategy for Africa

Fostering digital skills in developing countries - what works?

Insights from resilient cities

Wellbeing and macroeconomics: a SAGE approach

Efficiency and equity in a society-economy integrated model

Capitalism recoupled

Timor-Leste’s drivers of growth and sectoral transformation

The societal responses to COVID-19: evidence from the G7 countries

Virtual migration through online freelancing: evidence from Bangladesh

Fostering inclusive economic growth: the case of the Digital Code of Benin

Strengthening development finance in fragile contexts

Fiscal regimes and digital transformation in Sub-Saharan Africa

Managing multilevel cultural evolution in theory and practice

Lessons from implementing the Digital Economy Kit: Moving from diagnosis to action

The labour market impacts of female internal migration: Evidence from the end of Apartheid

COVID-19 and taxes: policies for the post-pandemic recovery

Socio-political consequences of regional economic divergence in Britain: 1983-2018

Governance to support a global green deal

COVID-19 and disruption of the digital economy: evidence from low and middle-income countries

Governing data and digital platforms in middle-income countries: regulations, competition and industrial policies, with sectoral case studies from South Africa

(Policy brief) Coping with COVID 19: Protecting lives, employment, and incomes in Myanmar

(Project report) Coping with COVID-19: Protecting lives, employment and incomes in Myanmar

Informality and COVID-19 in sub-Saharan Africa

Designed to succeed: building authorising environments for fast-growing cities

Urban land use planning for economic growth

Industrial policy and risk sharing in public development banks: Lessons for the post-COVID response from the EIB and EFSI

The Socio-Economics of Pandemics Policy

Scarcity and cognitive function around payday: a conceptual and empirical analysis

Transforming the Global Plastics Economy

Recoupling economic and social prosperity

Cognitive droughts

The BRT and the danfo: A case study of Lagos’ transport reforms from 1999-2019

The Digital Roadmap: How developing countries can get ahead

The prospects for manufacturing-led growth in Africa’s cities

The prospects for manufacturing-led growth in Africa’s cities

Considerations for land value capture reform in the Greater Amman Municipality

Psychological and social motivations in microfinance contracts: theory and evidence

Sex workers, stigma and self-image: evidence from Kolkata brothels

Public goods and future audiences: acting as role models?

Impôts sur le foncier: pour valoriser des revenus municipaux inexploités

Commentary on Edmund Rolls: 'Emotion and reason in human decision-making'

Inequality and real income growth for middle and low-income households across rich countries in recent decades

Cooperation and identity

Toward global paradigm change: beyond the crisis of the liberal world order

The median versus inequality-adjusted GDP as core indicator of ‘ordinary’ household living standards in rich countries

Technological advance, social fragmentation and welfare

Financial convergence in the financial periphery: How interdependence shapes regulators’ decisions

Pioneering firms in fragile and conflict-affected states

The demand for insurance under limited trust: evidence from a ﬁeld experiment in Kenya

Parental aspirations for children’s education: is there a “girl eﬀect”? Experimental evidence from rural Ethiopia

Enhancing property tax compliance in Mandalay

Rational Social Man and the compliance problem: an application of identity economics

Beyond qualified ignorance: rebuilding rationality without the bias bias

A quick, cost-effective approach to land tenure regularisation: the case of Rwanda

Markets are a function of language: notes on a narrative economics