What We Do

The Zurich Cen­ter for Eco­nom­ic De­vel­op­ment aims to cre­ate syn­er­gis­tic co­op­er­a­tion be­tween acad­e­mia, busi­ness, gov­ern­ment and non-prof­it or­ga­ni­za­tions in de­vel­oped and in de­vel­op­ing coun­tries for the pur­pose of de­sign­ing and eval­u­at­ing eco­nom­ic poli­cies that fa­cil­i­tate the al­le­vi­a­tion of pover­ty and help build pros­per­i­ty.

We con­tribute to trans­late re­search into prac­tice and build bridges be­tween acad­e­mia and pol­i­cy through a va­ri­ety of ac­tiv­i­ties, rang­ing from work­shops and train­ings, to sup­port­ing or­ga­ni­za­tions in de­vel­op­ing tai­lor-made ev­i­dence strate­gies that al­low them to ef­fec­tive­ly use sci­en­tif­ic ev­i­dence to guide their de­ci­sion-mak­ing, to pro­vid­ing ad­vice to pub­lic and pri­vate in­sti­tu­tions about in­sights from eco­nom­ics re­search.