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Nobel laureate economist Joseph Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) in July 2000 to help developing countries explore policy alternatives, and enable wider civic participation in economic policymaking. IPD is now a global network of more than 200 leading economists, political scientists, and practitioners from the North and South with diverse backgrounds and views.
The process of globalization has inspired widespread international protest, as many developing countries have struggled to achieve sustainable and equitable growth.
All economic policies entail trade-offs that benefit some groups more than others, and there is no one set of policies that is best for all countries. Yet instead of exploring the full range of economic solutions, the international debate has often centered on a narrow range of policy alternatives. Government officials in many developing countries have expressed concern with the lack of policy options.
IPD represents a positive response to these concerns. IPD analyzes the trade-offs associated with different policies and offers serious economic alternatives, while allowing the choice of policy to be made by the country's political process.
IPD efforts are intended not only to help countries find solutions to pressing problems, but also to strengthen their institutions and civil societies. Diverse stakeholders with a legitimate interest in policy outcomes often lack access to the process, information, and even the language necessary to participate effectively. IPD emphasizes diverse participation to enable broad civic involvement in economic policy making.
IPD pursues its objectives through four activities: Task Forces bring together experts from various countries to study complex, controversial economic issues and provide policy alternatives; Country Dialogues improve the quality of official decision making on economic issues, and open discussion to a broader array of participants; Capacity building through a Journalism Workshops program and our Journalism Primer enables civil society to participate effectively in the policy-making process, and Research improves the intellectual foundation for debate on development issues.
IPD is a collaborative effort among nearly 200 top economists, political scientists, policymakers, and civil society representatives from the developed and developing world, coordinated through Columbia University. IPD's network extends across a wide range of institutions, such as: Harvard University, University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, Princeton University, the London School of Economics, Cambridge University, the University of Stockholm, the Hungarian Pension Guarantee Fund, the Center for Economic and Financial Research in Moscow, University of Delhi, University of Malaysia, Thailand's Ministry of Justice on Legal and Judicial Reform, the Africa Economic Research Consortium, the African Institute for Applied Economics, the Center of Studies for Institutional Development in Buenos Aires, and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Chile. Please see our Member Directory for a complete list of our participants.
IPD is a non-profit organization based at Columbia University.
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