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In addition to academic research and policy papers, the Growth Lab shares research insights and the impact of our work through visual stories, blogs, newsletters, podcasts, videos, and press releases.

Our work has been featured in various media outlets including the BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, The Economist, The Financial Times, New York Times, Wall St. Journal, and Washington Post.

Media members seeking expert commentary and interviews with Growth Lab researchers should email Chuck McKenney.

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Deeper into the Public Procurement Goldmine

December 2, 2025

In this Project Syndicate op-ed, Ricardo Hausmann and Yariv Gabay explain why public procurement is one of the world’s most powerful yet underused industrial-policy tools.

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Energy Transition: Who Are the African Champions?

November 17, 2025

Forbes Afrique: Produced by the Growth Lab, this index notably highlights several African countries. Here’s a closer look at the five leading continental countries.

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Will AI Democratize Access to Equity Financing?

November 14, 2025

Economists ponder how AI will transform labor markets, but a bigger impact might be elsewhere — in equity markets. In this op-ed for Project Syndicate, Ricardo Hausmann argues that AI could make it cheaper, safer, and more democratic to invest in and raise equity capital.

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Azerbaijan, Harvard launch upgraded Green Growth Portal to drive global energy transition

November 12, 2025

Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Economy, in collaboration with Harvard University’s Growth Lab, has launched an enhanced version of the Green Growth Portal, initially introduced last year during COP29 in Baku.

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Interview with Ricardo Hausmann

Society of Professional Economists – Econ Thoughts

Filippo Gaddo, Managing Director at Alvarez and Marsal, SPE Councillor, and host of the Econ Thoughts SPE Podcast, spoke with Ricardo Hausmann, founder and director of Harvard’s Growth Lab and […]

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Odd Lots: What It Takes to Win a Trade War

Bloomberg Odd Lots

The focus of President Trump’s trade policies is clearly China. There are tariffs on everyone, of course, but it’s the growing Chinese manufacturing might, and the various perceived risks associated […]

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Growth Through Inclusion in South Africa with Ricardo Hausmann

Growth Lab Podcast Series

Episode Summary In this introductory episode, Ricardo Hausmann, the founder and Director of Harvard’s Growth Lab and the Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at Harvard […]

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Odd Lots: How Economic Complexity Explains Which Countries Become Rich

Bloomberg Odd Lots

Why do some countries become rich while others stagnate? And can you predict which countries become wealthy in advance of them actually increasing their collective GDP? The answer may lie […]

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Exiting the Resource Curse: The Political Economy of Natural Resource Management in Latin America

In this Development talk, Osmel Manzano, Adjunct Professor at Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, discusses the key challenges and opportunities for effective natural resource management in Latin America, and […]

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#DevTalks Green Growth by Design: The Science and Strategy of Greenplexity

A live demo and Q&A with Professor Ricardo Hausmann on the release of next-gen Greenplexity, a groundbreaking data and strategy tool that reveals how countries can identify their most promising opportunities across ten value chains at the heart of the global energy transition.

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AI and Economic Development: An Open-Source Angle on Opportunities, Challenges, and Policy Implications

Thomas Wolf, Co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Hugging Face, discusses how AI is influencing dynamics in economic development, and explore the key challenges facing policymakers and researchers as they work to understand and guide these transformations. HuggingFace operates the leading open platform for collaboration in AI.

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A Computational View of Life and Intelligence

“Life” and “intelligence” are terms with heavily contested meanings. In this Development Talk, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, Vice President and Fellow, and CTO of Technology & Society at Google, offered a novel, unified perspective on both, as described in his new book, “What Is Intelligence?: Lessons from AI About Evolution, Computing, and Minds.”

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Student Stories: Understanding the Challenges Facing Rural Areas in New Mexico

December 3, 2025

Andrea Vega is a Master’s in Public Policy student at Harvard Kennedy School. She was accepted into the Growth Lab’s 2025 Summer Internship program and contributed to the ongoing project […]

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Student Stories: How Pioneering Farmers are Overcoming Barriers in Azerbaijan

September 30, 2025

Palakshi Nerkar is a second-year MPP student at the Harvard Kennedy School. She was accepted into the Growth Lab’s 2025 Summer Internship Program and contributed to ongoing research in Azerbaijan. Why did […]

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Student Stories: Supporting Morocco’s Industrial Sector from the Inside

September 23, 2025

Adin Becker is a third-year Master in Public Administration and Master in Urban Planning dual-degree student at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He was […]