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 2024
A Focus on Institutions
Swift economic growth has lifted hundreds of millions of people in low- and lower-middle-income countries out of extreme poverty in recent decades, but this trend has slowed in recent years.
Historic patterns of structural transformation – where economies shift labor and resources from agriculture to industry and eventually to services, driving widespread income and productivity growth – are evolving with technological development and shifting geopolitics. Faculty affiliates at the Economic Growth Center are documenting these changes.
This year’s 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.
The 2024 Annual Report also covers EGC’s reach and impact, introduces new members of the EGC community, and describes the research our faculty affiliates published during the 2023-24 Academic Year across a broad range of topics.
Other Recent Annual Reports
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.
