The centre aims to emphasize the dependence between societal and economic progress hence concentrating on a holistic approach of development.
Rationale:
- Working on the sources of long-term prosperity and on removing the most crippling policy obstacles.
- Work on political and economic institutions in a newly federated Nepal, and ways to ensure effective service delivery across regions and ethno-social groups.
- Concentration on themes including- economic growth, trade, investment and entrepreneurship, infrastructure, migration and remittances, poverty and inequality and health.
This Center is anticipated to be established within 5 strategic years of IIDS.