Social Science Research Council

The International Forum for Development (IFD) emerges from the efforts of a wide range of intellectuals in advocacy and scholarly institutions who are committed to transforming debates about development policy during the coming decades. Its original aim was to contribute to the generation of a new policy agenda to harness the forces of globalization in ways that produce more rapid, equitable, and sustainable forms of development than are conceivable under the present neo-liberal framework. The mandate for the creation of such a new forum emerged from a three day conference and planning meeting convened by the Ford-funded International Economic Policy Working Group project in Antigua, Guatemala, July 28-30th, 2003.

For more information on this foundational initiative, the Annual Conference on Development and Change (ACDC), please select from the links on the right of the page.