Harvard Kennedy School
Over twenty-five years Morocco built an automotive and aeronautics export base largely from scratch, expanded renewables, and positioned itself as a bridge between Europe and Africa — while still struggling with low female labor-force participation, weak educational outcomes, and a growth rate that has not delivered the convergence the country hoped for. Karim El Aynaoui, […]
Across the United States, childcare shortages are quietly constraining economic growth — keeping workers, disproportionately women, out of the labor force. Wyoming offers an unusual case of a state tackling the problem not as social policy but as economic infrastructure. Since 2023, the Wyoming Business Council has led an interagency effort that treats childcare the […]
Over the past three decades, Mexico's urban population has nearly doubled, yet its city centers are emptying out. Since 1990, 2.5 million residents have left the central zones of 69 metropolitan areas as growth spread outward in a fragmented, low-density pattern. Central areas that once held over 40% of the urban population now hold just […]
In this online event, authors Ricardo Hausmann and Eric Protzer will argue that instead of retreating from globalization, Canada should take its place as a real competitor on the world stage, not only by bringing its natural resources to global markets, but also by building up industries like aerospace and the life sciences to overcome the “tyranny of distance.”