The research programme on Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG), led by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), will hold its first virtual annual conference on 13-15 January 2021. 

The STEG programme is structured around six themes. In August and September 2020, the six themes held online workshops. These workshops are a way of increasing the visibility of STEG within the research community and will play a role in helping to share knowledge of the current research frontier and in identifying open research questions. Please see the details for the different theme workshops below: 

STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH (STEG) :

A new research initiative launched to underpin development policy in low- and middle-income countries

As low-income countries begin to look beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, a new research programme aims to strengthen their potential for achieving long-run growth and economic transformation.

The Structural Transformation and Economic Growth (STEG) research programme was launched with a virtual inception workshop on the 4th and 5th June 2020, with an introduction to the intellectual framework of the project, a discussion of its key research themes and two keynote lectures: the first by Professor Gita Gopinath, Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund; and the second by Professor Kaushik Basu of Cornell University, and former Chief Economist at the World Bank.