• Assessment of structural adjustment programs,
• Poverty alleviation and income distribution,
• Financial analysis and feasibility studies,
  
• Project evaluation and corporate governance,
• Budget analysis, transparency and accountability,
• Human rights and transition from authoritarianism in the Arab World,
• Corruption studies and good governance,
• Impact assessment of public policies,
• Peace studies and conflict resolution,
• Governance and local development,
• Developmental role of civil society.

PID is committed to accomplish the following activities:

• research on economic, social and cultural development issues, on the  initiative of its won staff and under contractual arrangements,
• training workshops in the fields of specializations of PID,
• Disseminating findings of it research as widely s possible , particularly to decision-makers, development think tanks, media outlets and concerned civil society organizations,
• Providing a forum for debating development issues of concern to Egypt, Arab and developing countries,
• Cooperation with similar think tanks and research centers in developing and developed countries.