Department for International Development (DFID), GB
The Department for International Development (DFID) invites tenders for its economic development and institutions research programme. Tenderers will consider the relationship between institutions and economic growth in low income countries and create a body of evidence designed to be academically ground-breaking and of sufficient magnitude to be game-changing in terms of policy. Tenderers should deliver:
•a set of 10 to 20 path-finding papers reviewing current evidence on institutions’ relationship to growth, to set out the current research frontier;
•a tool for growth-orientated institutional diagnostics that would draw on existing knowledge to identify the feasible institutional reforms that would have the biggest growth pay off;
•a set of coordinated trials (RCTs) studying the effects of real institutional reforms across a range of contexts to inform general conclusions about one or two specific institutional reforms;
•a set of coordinated case studies on the interactions among institutions.
The project value is approximately £15 million