Working paper: Thicker policy diagnostics
The central challenge for economic policy in a developing country is to sustain or raise rates of economic growth.
Umar's work explores ways of using new economic thinking to address development problems – a current research project is on economic complexity and a capability-based approach to industrial policy and structural transformation.
The central challenge for economic policy in a developing country is to sustain or raise rates of economic growth.
Diagnostics represent a basis for policy that is specific to context, providing a systematic way of analysing causality and change. Umar Salam explains the need for complex diagnostics in policymaking.
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Our research programme,[ Economic Development and Institutions](http://www.opml.co.uk/projects/economic-development-institutions) (EDI), explores the ways covid-19 is affecting a range of social and economic situations in different countries around the world.