Boston University, Harvard University, Yale University, Williams College and Cornell University. It hosted the 1996 conference, and will do so again in the year 2001. The Institute is also co-sponsoring a conference on the Political Economy of Development with Yale University to be held in spring 2001. Beginning in 1999, the Institute began publishing an annual review of research activities. It includes summaries of discussion papers written during the year as well as highlighting other research efforts of IED research affiliates.
Activities vary from year to year, but include research, seminars, workshops and advising.
A related activity was integrating distributional analysis into project evaluation methodology. Recent studies have been completed on India and Niger, and ongoing research collaboration is occurring with Puerto Rico, Israel and the Netherlands. Graduate students frequently participate in these projects, both as consultants and for dissertation research. Recent scholars have explored regional and urban economics, economic growth, industrial economics, international trade and international finance. Affiliated Faculty Marianne Baxter, Professor, works primarily on topics in international macroeconomics and finance.