The Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD) is a non-profit organization based at Columbia University, founded in July 2000 by Joseph E. Stiglitz to help developing countries explore policy alternatives, and enable wider civic participation in economic policymaking. A non-profit organization (often called non-profit org or simply non-profit or not-for-profit) can be seen as an organization that doesnt have a primary purpose to make a profit. ... Columbia University is a private university in New York City. ... 2000 is a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Joseph Stiglitz (born February 9, 1943) is an American economist, author and winner of Nobel Prize for economics (2001). ...

The organization is now a global network of more than 200 economists, political scientists, and practitioners from all over the world with diverse backgrounds and views. IPD intends to help countries find solutions to pressing problems, and strengthen their institutions civil societies. An economist is someone who studies Economics. ... A scientist is a person who is expert in an area of science and who uses the scientific method in research. ...

External links

• IPD official website (http://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/ipd)