Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre

The Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Centre aims to improve the use of governance research evidence in decision-making.

ESID researchers will generate new knowledge to help policy actors in developing countries create more effective and pro-poor policies and programmes.

Latest news

ESID Partner makes ‘Top 100 Global Thinkers’ list 25.

25 November - Lecture by Professor Paul Mosley: The politics of poverty reduction.

2-4 November - ESID partners workshop in Delhi, India.

Latest publications

Annotated bibliography on Developmental States, Political Settlements and Citizenship Formation.

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ESID research

Some of the issues ESID research will look at include:

the forms and levels of state capacity needed for inclusive development;incentives and ideas that influence elite commitment to inclusive development and state effectiveness;
the political, institutional and political economy conditions that lead to developmental states and elite commitment

More information on ESID research.

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