Harvard Kennedy School
Speaker: Fatema Z. Sumar, Vice President of Global Programs, OXFAM America About the talk: At a time when 65 million people are displaced from their homes and more than 800 million people go to bed hungry every night, how can we make a real difference in tackling poverty & social injustices? During this talk, Fatema will draw […]
Speaker: Jonathan Lehe MPA/ID '17, Director of New Programs, Precision Agriculture for Development (PAD) About the talk: The majority of the world’s 450 million smallholder farmers and the 2 billion people who depend on them live in rural villages in developing countries, growing crops at close to subsistence levels to feed their families. Smallholders typically harvest […]
Speakers: Charity Moore, India Research DirectorSonya Suter, Senior Program Manager About the Speakers:Charity Moore: Charity Troyer Moore is the India Research Director for Evidence for Policy Design at the Harvard Kennedy School. She leads research-policy engagements with a variety of entities in India to ensure that research is attuned to the problems facing policymakers and […]
Speakers: Amit Patel, Assistant Professor, McCormack Graduate School for Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts BostonAmmar Malik, Director, EPoD Research About the Talk: Environmental degradation reduces the environmental capacity to meet social and ecological needs of societies, which is exacerbated by natural hazards and extreme climate events, and often intensify existing vulnerabilities. Marginalized groups in cities, […]
Speaker: Andrés Reséndez, Professor, Department of History at University of California Davis; Author, The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. About the talk: The Other Slavery examines the system of bondage that targeted Native Americans, a system that was every bit as terrible, degrading, and vast as African slavery. Anywhere between 2.5 and […]
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 […]
Speaker: Semiray Kasoolu, Research Fellow, Growth Lab About the Talk: Women in Jordan are excluded from labor market opportunities at among the highest rates in the world. Previous efforts to explain this outcome have focused on specific, isolated aspects of the problem and have not explained its persistence. After a careful review of the available literature […]
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 […]
Presenter: Arianna Mazzeo, Visiting Professor, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences About the Workshop: Policymakers and citizens are struggling with big structural and complex problems such as climate change, cultural, economic and social inequality and the education gap between represented and underrepresented communities. In this workshop you will learn how to identify systemic challenges starting with […]