Sri Lanka

2023 Apr 24

Research Seminar: Regulation by Reputation? Intermediaries, Labor Abuses & International Migration

10:15am to 11:30am

Location: 

Belfer L1 Weil Town Hall, HKS / Zoom (registration information below)

The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.

Please register in advance.

Speaker: Nilesh Fernando, Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Notre Dame

About the Seminar: Migrant workers and employers rely...

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Hausmann: Liberalising migrant labour policies key to propel growth

May 18, 2018

Ricardo Hausmann, Growth Lab Sri Lanka project in Sunday Observer

Sri Lanka has the potential to accelerate its economic growth by creating access to know-how through liberalised immigration policies, opines a renowned expert on development economics.

Addressing a recent lecture on the topic of ‘Accessing know-how for development’, Director of Centre for International Development (CID) at Harvard University, Prof. Ricardo Hausmann says the low addition of new products to the island’s export basket in the last two decades was primarily due to the barriers in...

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