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    • CID Speaker Series – Going Cashless: An Opportunity to Accelerate Progress on the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals

    Bell Hall - Belfer 5th Floor
    • Speaker Series

    Speaker: Tidhar Wald, Head of Government Relations and Public Policy, Better Than Cash Alliance, United Nations About the talk: Billions of dollars in cash payments are made daily in emerging and developing economies, including payment of salaries, social welfare and business transactions. The problem with these cash payments is their lack of transparency, accountability and security. Thanks to […]

    African Women Leadership: A Conversation with Oby Ezekwesili

    Wex 434 - Wexner Building 4th floor

    Speaker: MME Oby Ezekwesili, Nobel Prize Nominee, 2019 Nigeria Presidential Nominee (ACPN), Convener, #BringBackOurGirls Movement About the talk: Join the Africa Caucus, a student organization at HKS, as they celebrate African Women Leadership in conversation with MME Oby Ezekwesili, Nobel Prize Nominee, 2019 Nigeria Presidential Nominee (ACPN), Convener, #BringBackOurGirls Movement.

    CID Speaker Series: Better Growth & Better Climate: The New Climate Economy

    Starr Auditorium (B200) - Belfer Building, 2nd floor
    • Speaker Series

    Speaker: Felipe Calderón Hinojosa, Former President of Mexico and Honorary Chair of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate About the talk: The presentation will focus on the key findings of the recently released New Climate Economy’s (NCE) 2018 Report on Unlocking the Inclusive Growth Story of the 21st Century: Accelerating Climate Action in Urgent Times. […]

    CID Speaker Series: The Economics and Politics of the Post-Financial Crisis Global Geography

    Allison Dining Room, Taubman Building 5th Floor, HKS

    Speaker: Ernesto Talvi, Academic Director of Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Affairs (CERES) and 2019 Presidential candidate, Uruguay About the speaker: Ernesto Talvi is a nonresident senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution and Academic Director of CERES in Uruguay. He also serves as the director of the […]

    CID Speaker Series: Hot Topics in Global Health Financing: Accountability, Transition, and the Universal Health Coverage Agenda

    Bell Hall - Belfer 5th Floor
    • Speaker Series

    Speaker: Rachel Silverman, Senior Policy Analyst and Assistant Director of Global Health Policy, Center for Global Development (CGD) About the talk: Since 2000, a large and complex global infrastructure has emerged to help finance public health improvement in low- and middle-income countries. These institutions have helped drive historic improvements in child survival, HIV mortality, and access to modern […]

    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 […]

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