Harvard Kennedy School
About the Conference: The 2019 Latin American Conference at the Harvard Kennedy School will be the 6th edition of this student-organized conference. This conference aims at generating a space to analyze the region's main challenges through a debate featuring political actors, social leaders, policy experts and practitioners with a leadership position in Latin America. This […]
Speakers: Ricardo Hausmann, Rafiki Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy; Director, Growth LabAnnie White, Senior Product Manager, Growth LabTim Cheston, Senior Manager, Applied Research, Growth Lab About the Event: Join us for the launch of an exciting new tool to our Atlas of Economic Complexity: Country Profiles. The Country Profiles are a new, interactive journey through a country's […]
Moderator: Nikita Taniparti, Research Fellow, Growth LabPanel Speakers: Jason Keene; Apratim Gautam; Vishal Potluri About the Event: Join the 2019 Growth Lab Interns to learn about their summer experiences in Ethiopia. This panel discussion will feature stories from the field, examples of engagements with government stakeholders, as well as policy analysis and highlights from their analytical work. This […]
Moderator: Miguel Santos, Director, Applied Research, Growth Lab; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, HKSFeaturing MPA/ID Students: Mustafa Serbest, Chatra Kamseng, Abdulhamid Haidar About the Event: Join the 2019 Growth Lab Interns to learn about their summer experiences in Jordan. This panel discussion will feature stories from the field, examples of engagements with government stakeholders, as well as […]
Moderator: Daniela Muhaj, Research Fellow, Growth Lab Featuring HKS Students: Damian Galinsky (MPA/ID; Albania), Uriel Kejsefman (MPA/ID; Albania), Shivani Mishra (MPA/ID; Albania), Sarah Mousa (MPP; Saudi Arabia), David Franklin (MPA/ID; Sri Lanka) About the Discussion: This is the third and final panel discussion of the Growth Lab’s Learning Policy in Practice series, featuring students who completed their 2019 […]
Speakers: Ricardo Hausmann, Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy; Director, Growth LabErmal Frasheri, Senior Research Fellow, Growth Lab Moderator: Ljubica Nedelkoska, Postdoctoral Fellow, Growth Lab About the Talk: Since 2013, the Growth Lab has worked with the Government of Albania to identify policies that target country-specific binding constraints in order to promote […]
Speaker: Annette Idler, Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University About the Talk: Drawing on her book Borderland Battles: Violence, Crime, and Governance at the Edges of Colombia’s War (Oxford University Press, 2019) and her latest research findings, Annette Idler reveals why the Colombian-Venezuelan borderlands are enabling crucial but largely unacknowledged interactions between Venezuela’s devastating […]
Speaker: Amit Kapoor, CEO of Institute for Competitiveness, India About the Event: The Government of India though the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoHUA) and the Institute for Competitiveness (IFC) is embarking on a 5-year research initiative implementing the Growth Lab’s groundbreaking methodologies – economic complexity and growth diagnostics. Join Amit Kapoor, CEO of IFC, […]
Speaker: Ljubica Nedelkoska, Postdoctoral Fellow, Growth Lab About the Talk: We study the factors behind the public sector premium in Albania and Sri Lanka, the group heterogeneity in the premium, the sources of public sector wage compression, and the impact of this compression on the way individuals self-select between the public and the private sector. Similar to other […]
Speaker: Gordon Hanson, Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.About the Speaker: Gordon Hanson is the Peter Wertheim Professor in Urban Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and co-editor of the Journal of Economic Perspectives. […]