Activities extend beyond economic analysis to include policy advice to developing countries and to the UK Department for International Development, the European Commission and Parliament, and the World Trade Organisation.
IEDG work with other economists in Europe and in developing countries. They have formal links with the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes and the African Economic Research Consortium, which supports policy-oriented economic research by African scholars. Projects range from multi-year multi-country comparative analysis to studies to answer immediate policy questions.
IEDG works in 6 areas:
- trade and trade policy
- international institutions
- foreign investment
- short-term capital flows
- effectiveness of aid
- natural disasters