Initiated by the Institute of New Structural Economics (INSE) at Peking University, with support from the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the Africa Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), the Global Research Consortium on Economic Structural Transformation (GReCEST) aspires to foster intellectual partnerships and promote original thinking and innovative practice in an effort to help developing countries to achieve economic structural transformation.
The GReCEST serves as one of the priority areas under the umbrella of the Global Coalition of Think Tank Network for South-South Cooperation co-convened by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the United Nations Office for South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC). The GReCEST has 33 founding members from all over the world, with the Secretariat housed at the INSE at Peking University.
The launch event of the GReCEST was held in the headquarters of the United Nations in New York on 18 May 2016. The inaugural conference of the GReCEST was held at Peking University in Beijing on 13 and 14 December 2016. More than 100 researchers, practitioners and policy makers from research institutes, think tanks, international organizations and development agencies, foreign embassies in Beijing, as well as the Chinese government attended the conference.
GReCEST Network focal point is Xiaolu Li.
Think tanks in this network
Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies | Institute of New Structural Economics (INSE) |
Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research | Thailand Development Research Institute (TDRI) |
Institute of Economic Research under the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan (ERI) | Centre Ivoirien de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (CIRES, Côte d’Ivoire) |
University of Central Asia (UCA) | African School of Economics |
Economic Center for Economic Studies | Egypt Network for Integrated Development |
Ethiopian Development Research Institute (EDRI) | African Center for Economic Transformation |
Economic and Social Research Foundation (ESRF) | African Economic Research Consortium |
Economic Research ForumWebsite: erf.org.eg | German Development InstituteWebsite: die-gdi.de |
Laboratoire d'Analyse des Politiques de Développement at the University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar | Center for Development Research (ZEF Bonn), Department of Economic and Technological Change, University of Bonn |
Group for the Analysis of DevelopmentWebsite: grade.org.pe | Development Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town |
National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS) | Technology and Management Centre for Development at Oxford University |
Institute for Development Studies | Overseas Development Institute |
China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University | International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) |
Center for Global DevelopmentWebsite: cgdev.org | Initiative for Policy DialogueWebsite: policydialogue.org |
OECD Development CenterWebsite: oecd.org/dev | Center for Economic Catch-up |
Policy Research for Development (REPOA) | Lund University |
Research Institute of Global Value Chains, University of International Business and Economics (RIGVC, UIBE) |