About Inclusion Economics
Enabling more inclusive and equitable institutions, economies, and societies.
About Us
How can lower-income countries use policy to include the excluded?
Healthy societies promote inclusion by distributing power and opportunity equitably, rather than reinforcing traditional exclusion and bias - and by protecting their most vulnerable citizens from the environmental and social costs of development. Inclusion must be intentional: it is not guaranteed by strong economic growth, democratic elections, or even altruism. And it must be supported through informal institutions including families and communities, as well as formal ones such as markets and states.
Inclusion Economics research draws insights across disciplines to focus on four linked activities
- Innovative data collection to identify who is failing to access resources they need, and the invisible social and power structures that constrain opportunity.
- Cutting-edge research to understand how to promote and sustain inclusive and accountable institutions.
- Close engagement with stakeholders – from government officials and local researchers to marginalized individuals – to ensure research addresses policy-relevant questions and provide timely insights.
- Communication of data-driven insights to shape broader narratives and understanding on inclusion.
Inclusion Economics is a policy-engaged research initiative that spans Inclusion Economics at Yale University, Inclusion Economics India Centre at IFMR, and Inclusion Economics Nepal at Governance Lab.
Yale Inclusion Economics is a collaboration across the Economic Growth Center and the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies.