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    • The Challenge of Driving Prosperity: Growth Diagnostics and Sustainable Development

    Perkins Room (R429) - Rubenstein 4th Floor
    • Growth Lab

    Speakers: Miguel Angel Santos, Senior Research Fellow, CID (Jordan, Panama, Venezuela, sub-national Mexico)Douglas Barrios, Research Fellow, CID (Venezuela, sub-national Mexico)Tim O'Brien, Research Fellow, CID (Sri Lanka, Albania, Jordan) About the talk: This panel discussion will focus on how to overcome the implementation challenges that arise when doing growth diagnostics, make high bandwidth development policies politically viable, and […]

    • CID Speaker Series: How Cheap Smartphones and Off-The-Shelf Machine Learning are Changing the Government in Pakistan

    Perkins Room (R429) - Rubenstein 4th Floor
    • Speaker Series

    Speaker: Prof. Umar Saif, Chairman of the Punjab Information Technology Board About the talk: In this talk, Prof. Saif will present a series of large-scale systems which use cheap smartphones and machine learning to inform policy in the government. Specifically, the talk will focus on three areas: (1) Agriculture: Their platform, FoodAtHome.org, uses free multi-spectral imagery, smartphone-based […]

    CID Speaker Series: Politicising Inequality: The Power of Ideas

    Democracy Lab AB (R414 AB) - Rubenstein 4th Floor
    • Speaker Series

    Speaker: Alice Evans, Associate, Building State Capability Program and Lecturer, King's College London About the talk: A contemporary challenge is inequality. In this seminar, Alice Evans will present findings from her paper, "Politicising Inequality: The Power of Ideas". The paper illustrates why ideas matter, and how they can change over time. Inequalities are reinforced when they are taken […]

    CID Speaker Series: New Pathways to Inclusive Growth: Sri Lanka Project in Retrospect

    Democracy Lab AB (R414 AB) - Rubenstein 4th Floor
    • Speaker Series

    Speakers: Daniel Stock, Research Fellow, CID; Timothy O'Brien, Research Fellow, CID; Sehar Noor, Research Assistant, CID About the talk: Starting in November 2015, the Center for International Development’s Growth Lab has been engaged in economic policy research with the Government of Sri Lanka. Led by Professor Ricardo Hausmann, the team has focused on a single question: what […]

    CID Speaker Series: Cash Transfer Programs in Developing Countries: Insights from Indonesia

    Perkins Room (R429) - Rubenstein Building 4th floor
    • Speaker Series

    Speaker: Aaron Berman, Research Fellow, Evidence for Policy Design (EPoD) About the talk: In this talk, Aaron Berman will present an overview of EPoD's research on cash transfers in developing countries, led by Professors Rema Hanna (HKS) and Ben Olken (MIT). He will focus in particular on two research projects. The first, "Universal Basic Incomes […]

    • Preventing Violence in Developing (and Developed) Countries

    Democracy Lab (R414 AB), Rubenstein Building 4th floor, HKS
    • Speaker Series

    Speaker: Leslee Udwin, Founder & President, Think Equal About the Speaker: Leslee was voted by the NY Times the No 2 Most Impactful Woman of 2015 (second to Hillary Clinton), and has been awarded the prestigious Swedish Anna Lindh Human Rights Prize (previously won by Madeleine Albright). She has also been named Safe’s Global Hero of […]

    Syria: The Catastrophe

    Democracy Lab (R414 AB), Rubenstein Building 4th floor, HKS
    • Speaker Series

    Speaker: Rt Hon. Andrew Mitchell, British MP and Former Secretary of State for International Development About the Speaker: Rt Hon. Andrew Mitchell is a British Conservative Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Sutton Coldfield since 2001. He was the MP for Gedling from 1987 to 1997. He served in the Cabinet as […]

    IDEV PIC Event: Women’s Empowerment in Official Development Cooperation

    Perkins Room (R429), Rubenstein 4th Floor, HKS

    Speaker: Wade Channell, Senior Economic Growth Advisor, Office of Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment, USAID About the Talk: The IDEV PIC invites you for a conversation on empowering women in international development with Wade Channell, gender equality expert at USAID. We will debate the most pressing challenges facing women and girls globally, discuss the role of […]

    • PDIA in Action: Challenges & Experiences

    Democracy Lab (R414AB), Rubenstein Building 4th Floor, HKS
    • Speaker Series

    Speaker: Salimah Samji, Director of the Building State Capability program at CID About the talk: Building State Capability (BSC) program uses the Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) approach to help organizations develop the capability to solve complex problems and to implement public policies. PDIA is a process of facilitated emergence which focuses on problems (not solutions) […]

    2019 Latin American Conference

    Littauer Building, 1st Floor, HKS
    • Growth Lab

    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 […]

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