The Economic Growth Center's Annual Report
EGC supports the research and teaching in economics of those at Yale engaged with studying development and growth in lower-income countries. On this page you can explore our current and past Annual Reports to learn more about our research, programming, and engagement with students.
EGC Annual Report 2025
Growth in a Shifting Landscape
We are pleased to share the Yale Economic Growth Center’s 2025 annual report. The past academic year marked the completion of EGC’s 2020-25 strategic plan to strengthen the Center and expand its impact. Launched in 2020, the period was bracketed by the global COVID-19 crisis at its start, and an upending of the global order in trade and development aid in 2025.
The EGC was founded in 1961, to provide data-based insights at a time when the world was in the midst of a great shift away from colonialism and towards global aid. Now we likely find ourselves at another historical precipice: global aid institutions are retreating, the rule-based international order is ending, and the spread of AI is changing labor markets and will impact economic growth in ways still unclear. But amidst these challenges, opportunities will arise to redefine and strengthen the foundations of sustainable and inclusive economic growth.
Over the past five years EGC has deepened our work and strengthened our institutional base. Our mission remains unchanged, but we are now better equipped to interpret and assist in a rapidly evolving global economy, whatever challenges the next horizon may bring.
We invite you to explore this year's EGC Annual Report: Growth in a Shifting Landscape — and as always, welcome your thoughts on our priorities in the years ahead.
Other Recent Annual Reports
The 2024 EGC Annual Report: A Focus on Institutions highlights how our researchers, frequently working together through EGC initiatives, are examining ways to strengthen institutions. This comes at a time when institutions across the world are being tested – with many failing.
Recognizing gender as a pivotal factor in equitable development, EGC is actively supporting gender-focused research and research-policy engagements. The 2023 Annual Report describes this work, and international gender-focused events hosted by the Gender and Growth Gaps Initiative, Yale Inclusion Economics, and collaborating institutions.
Read about EGC’s reach and impact, meet new members of the EGC community, and explore the research our faculty affiliates published during the 2021-22 Academic Year. The report also marks the launch of Yale Inclusion Economics and the Gender and Growth Gaps initiative.
In celebration of the 60th anniversary in 2021, the Economic Growth Center relaunched its Annual Report. Explore our research and programming from the 2020-21 Academic Year, and read about how the Center supported students during the Covid-19 pandemic.
