The International Growth Centre offers independent advice on economic growth to governments of developing countries. Based at LSE and in partnership with Oxford University, the IGC is initiated and funded by DFID.

IGC has active country programmes in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, India (Central and Bihar), Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia and Rwanda and supports over seventy individual research projects on issues of governance, human capital, agriculture, infrastructure, trade, firm capability, state capacity, macroeconomics and political economy.