Events

  • Can Small Nations Compete and Win in the Age of AI? The Case of Wales

    Democracy Lab (R414 AB), Rubenstein Building 4th floor, HKS
    • Development Talks
    • Hybrid

    The AI revolution is reshaping the terms of economic competition — and for small nations without Big Tech headquarters or deep capital markets, the question is whether size can be an advantage rather than a constraint. Wales is a sharp test case. It industrialized early, de-industrialized hard, and has important productivity challenges to overcome. Now […]

    Growth and Structural Transformation in Morocco

    Malkin Penthouse
    • Development Talks
    • Hybrid

    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, […]

  • Thirty Years of Urbanization in Mexico, 1990–2020: Urban Expansion, Central Decline, and the Remaking of Urban Form

    Malkin Penthouse, HKS
    • Development Talks
    • Hybrid

    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 […]

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