Full name and acronym: Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD)

Founding date: July 2000

Objectives: IPD helps developing countries explore policy alternatives and encourages wider civic participation in economic policymaking.

Main projects in globalisation studies: IPD explores policy alternatives and informs civil society through four main activities: task forces, country dialogues, journalism, and research. Task Forces bring together international experts to study complex, controversial economic issues, including globalization, trade, macroeconomics, transparency and environmental economics; Country Dialogues improve the quality of official decision-making in developing countries, and open the discussion to a broad array of economic stakeholders; Journalism Training helps journalists bring a wide range of ideas on economic policy into the public sphere. IPD’s aim is to enhance the quality of dialogue by broadening the debate, while leaving the selection of policy to the political process.

Outputs:seminars, workshops, conferences; external presentations to academic and practitioner groups; articles and books (IPD book series published by Oxford University Press); working paper series; biannual newsletters; website;

Staff numbers: 4

Director: Joseph Stiglitz

Funding: Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, UNDP, Open Society Institute, Mott Foundation, SwedishInternational Development Agency, Canadian International Development Agency, US Embassy in Vietnam

Street Address: 819 International and Public Affairs Building, Columbia University, 420 West 118^th Street. New York, NY 10027, USA

tel: ++1 212-854-9809

fax: ++1 212-854-2774

email: ipolicydialogue@yahoo.com