Partnerships with organizations like the World Bank Group,[1] International Monetary Fund,[2] Internet Society,[3] and The Nature Conservancy[4] have led to academic conferences and policy seminars.

The Institute's mission is formally to serve "as a catalyst for high quality, multidisciplinary, and non-partisan research on policy issues surrounding economic globalization"[5] Affiliated faculty have appointments in the departments of economics, history, geography, and political science as well as the law, public health, political management, and business schools of George Washington University.

IIEP produces research and policy analyses in areas of global economic governance, such as ultra-poverty, climate change adaptation, international trade, and US-China relations.

It includes identifying 'who is poor' by considering the range of deprivations they suffer, and aggregating that information to reflect societal poverty in a way that is robust and decomposable.

Contemporary methods of measuring poverty and wellbeing commonly generate a statistic for the percentage of the population who are poor, a head count (H).

Jane Does 1–5 alleged that staff and leadership at the Institute were aware of sexual violence being perpetrated by one student worker to multiple others and failed to act.