Features AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND CAPABILITY APPROACH Freedom and Agency MARKET DYNAMICS AND PRODUCTIVITY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Economic Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa Research Brief: Foreign Direct Investment This paper provides a snapshot of some of the research projects by IDRC and other researchers on the topic of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). It explores trends in Asia, Latin America, and Africa, as well as emerging South-South trends in FDI. The Unrelenting Pressure of Protectionism: The 3rd GTA Report Third report of the Global Trade Alert Working Paper 9 - Does Money Matter? The Effects of the Child Support Grant on Childrearing Decisions in South Africa The Child Support Grant (CSG) reaches more than nine million children in South Africa. Could this public cash transfer targeted towards children influence parents’ behaviour toward raising their own children?

 

Globalization, Growth and Poverty (GGP) is an IDRC program aimed at enabling developing countries to identify combinations of domestic policies and international integration strategies to promote inclusive growth.

GGP supports the generation of evidence-based knowledge and its use in policy making, as well as the development of related individual and institutional capacities.

 

To learn more about the GGP program, its research themes, projects, program and project publications, as well as funding opportunities, please click on the links  in the “topic explorer” menu to the left.

 

 

Each One-pager presents key findings from a GGP-supported project.  The goal of the series is to bring new evidence and insights on inclusive growth to a wider audience, and show how evidence and analysis can inform policy debates on current growth and poverty issues.

 

NEW! One-pager No. 2: Smallish FDI, sluggish growth: Can MERCOSUR do better?  Available here.

 

Check out One-pager No. 1: Many jobs, few opportunities: Can uneven growth benefit India’s poor?  Available here.

 

 

 

by Louis-Marie Asselin