BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Growth Lab - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Growth Lab X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Growth Lab REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170203T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170203T140000 DTSTAMP:20260507T030150 CREATED:20170119T192100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175418Z UID:14956-1486126800-1486130400@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: How Some Rustbelt Cities are Becoming the Smartest Places on Earth and Why it Matters DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Antoine van Agtmael\, senior adviser at Foreign Policy Analytics and principal founder\, CEO and CIO of Emerging Markets Management LLC. Mr. van Agtmael is senior adviser at Foreign Policy Analytics\, a public policy advisory firm in Washington DC and was the principal founder\, CEO and CIO of Emerging Markets Management LLC (and later chairman of AshmoreEMM)\, a leading investment management firm for emerging market equities.  He was also a founding director of the Strategic Investment GroupSM.  Before founding EMM in 1987\, Mr. van Agtmael was Deputy Director of the Capital Markets department of the International Finance Corporation (“IFC”)\, the private sector-oriented affiliate of the World Bank. While at IFC\, he coined the term “emerging markets” and founded the IFC Emerging Markets Database. He was also a Division Chief in the World Bank’s borrowing operations\, Managing Director of Thailand’s leading merchant bank TISCO and Vice President at Bankers Trust Company.  Mr. van Agtmael is co-author of The Smartest Places on Earth (Public Affairs\, March 2016)\, author of The Emerging Markets Century (Free Press\, 2007)\, Emerging Securities Markets (Euromoney\, 1984)\, and co-editor of The World’s Emerging Stock Markets (Probus Publishing\, 1992). He was an adjunct professor at Georgetown Law Center and taught at the Harvard Institute of Politics and Thammasat University\, Bangkok. He has lectured widely at universities and other professional audiences around the world. He holds an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School\, an M.A. in Russian and Eastern European Studies from Yale University and an undergraduate degree in Economics from Erasmus University in the Netherlands. He is a Board member of The Brookings Institution (and Co-Chair of its International Advisory Council)\, the NPR Foundation (and until 2013 its Chair and NPR board member)\, the Smithsonian’s Freer Sackler Gallery\, and Magnum Photos. He is also a member of the Yale President’s Council on International Activities and of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is married and has two children and a grandchild.   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-how-some-rustbelt-cities-are-becoming-the-smartest-places-on-earth-and-why-it-matters/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170208T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170208T183000 DTSTAMP:20260507T030150 CREATED:20170120T033800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004453Z UID:15058-1486574100-1486578600@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Stories and Statistics: Why we need mixed methods to understand international development (Co-Sponsored with the Ash Center) DESCRIPTION:Quantitative or qualitative: which evaluation method is more useful?  This has long been a contentious debate in the field of international development.  Yet while individual methods like randomized control trials\, ethnography\, structured observations\, and interviews are each well-placed to reveal parts of the picture\, each can also miss important parts of the whole.  Thus the question is: how can researchers become more deliberate and holistic in using mixed methods to understand the full picture?  The Transparency for Development Project is seeking to answer that question in its pursuit of understanding of whether\, where\, and how citizen-led transparency and accountability interventions can improve health.  Join us as T4D Principal Investigators Archon Fung\, Dan Levy\, and Stephen Kosack reflect on the T4D project’s mixed method approach and draw on early insights from the evaluation that demonstrate the importance of integrating qualitative and quantitative methods in evaluating development programs.   Speakers: Dan Levy\, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy\, HKS; Faculty Chair\, SLATE Stephen Kosack\, Associate Professor\, University of Washington; Senior Research Fellow\, Ash Center   Moderator: Archon Fung\, Ford Foundation Professor of Democracy and Citizenship; Academic Dean\, HKS   URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/stories-and-statistics-why-we-need-mixed-methods-to-understand-international-development-co-sponsored-with-the-ash-center/ LOCATION:Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation\, Suite 200N\, 124 Mt Auburn Street\, Cambridge END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170210T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170210T140000 DTSTAMP:20260507T030150 CREATED:20170131T211600Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175419Z UID:14940-1486731600-1486735200@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar - Building an award winning NGO: an insight on the challenges and reality behind the dream to make a difference DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Filipe Alfaiate and Ariana Almeida\, Co-Founders of the Timor-Leste based NGO\, Empreza Diak About the session: Filipe and Ariana will be talking about how their dream to make a difference became an award winning NGO empowering poor women and their families in Timor-Leste\, the newest and most impoverished country in Asia. They will focus on what can be learned from the challenges\, mistakes and successes they faced in the past six years while launching the timorese NGO Empreza Diak (which means Good Business) and developing a sustainable team of staff\, volunteers and donors. All passionate about changing lives by creating opportunities that build better lives\, not charity. They will share unexpected outcomes\, challenges\, successes and what they would have done differently. And how they found that passion\, hard work and innovation can make a difference even in the most challenging of places. They will also talk about why and how they used the over 2 million USD fundraised between 2011 and 2015 to focus on women economic empowerment\, social business and inclusive markets\, in programs now reaching over 5\,000 vulnerable people.  About the speakers: Filipe Alfaiate is a Mason Fellow and MC/MPA candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. An innovator\, critical and strategic thinker\, he has a passion for new ideas and unique expertise at intersection of Law\, social issues and development. Filipe has launched and led social projects in Portugal\, Brazil and Timor-Leste focusing on social change\, economic development and social inclusion. He has 16 years’ experience as adviser and consultant to governments\, private sector firms and non-governmental organizations\, in Law\, Innovation\, Economic Empowerment and Policy and worked in more than 20 countries.  A qualified lawyer in Portugal\, Timor-Leste and England\, Filipe was senior associate in the international law firm Clifford Chance. Later\, he was the senior adviser of Timor-Leste’s Prime Minister providing advice on investment\, Law and the drafting of the country’s National Strategic Plan. In 2010 Filipe co-Founded and directed the timorese NGO Empreza Diak\, focusing his work on business development and innovation.  Ariana Almeida is a social entrepreneur\, gender equality and economic empowerment expert and program manager. Her passion for fighting social injustices and for working with those with fewer opportunities in life to build better futures inspired her to work in development.  After working with Save the Children (UK\, Brazil\, Hong Kong\, Timor-Leste) and Plan International (Timor-Leste) she co-founded the social enterprise Empreza Diak\, which received the prestigious Sergio Vieira de Mello Human Rights Award\, 2014 by Timor-Leste’s President. She led the organization’s women economic empowerment program and advocated for gender equality. Ariana holds a Law Degree and brings her law and development expertise to her management\, advocacy and program and policy design.                URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-building-an-award-winning-ngo-an-insight-on-the-challenges-and-reality-behind-the-dream-to-make-a-difference/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170213T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170213T173000 DTSTAMP:20260507T030150 CREATED:20170125T022800Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175419Z UID:14809-1487001600-1487007000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Book Launch: "Building State Capability - Evidence\, Analysis\, Action" DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Matt Andrews\, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Lant Pritchett\, Professor of the Practice of International Development at Harvard Kennedy School \n \n Authors Matt and Lant will present the recently launched book: “Building State Capability – Evidence\, Analysis\, Action”. \n The book uses data to identify failures in efforts to build state capability in development\, employs theory to explain why these failures are common and likely to persist-keeping countries in capability traps–and builds on applied experience to offer a new approach to build state capability more effectively. \n ‘Building State Capability provides anyone interested in promoting development with practical advice on how to proceed—not by copying imported theoretical models\, but through an iterative learning process that takes into account the messy reality of the society in question. The authors draw on their collective years of realworld experience as well as abundant data and get to what is truly the essence of the development problem.’  Francis Fukuyama\, Stanford University; author of State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century \n About the Speakers: \n Matt Andrews is Associate Professor of Public Policy. His research focuses on public sector reform\, particularly budgeting and finan \n\ncial management reform\, and participatory governance in developing and transitional governments. Recent articles focus on forging a theoretical understanding of the nontechnical factors influencing success in reform processes. Specific emphasis lies on the informal institutional context of reform\, as well as leadership structures within government-wide networks. This research developed out of his work in the provincial government of Kwa-Zulu Natal in South Africa and more recently from his tenure as a Public Sector Specialist working in the Europe and Central Asia Region of the World Bank. He brings this experience to courses on public management and development. He holds a BCom (Hons) degree from the University of Natal\, Durban (South Africa)\, an MSc from the University of London\, and a PhD in Public Administration from the Maxwell School\, Syracuse University. \n Lant Pritchett is Professor of the Practice of International Development at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University \n\n(as of July 1\, 2007). In addition he is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Global Development. He was co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics and worked as a consultant to Google.org. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1983 with a B.S. in Economics and in 1988 from MIT with a PhD in Economics. \n After finishing at MIT Lant joined the World Bank\, where he held a number of positions in the Bank’s research complex between 1988 and 1998\, including as an adviser to Lawrence Summers when he was Vice President from 1991-1993. From 1998 to 2000 he worked in Indonesia. From 2000 to 2004 Lant was on leave from the World Bank as a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 2004 he returned to the World Bank and moved to India where he worked until May 2007. \n Lant has been part of the team producing many World Bank reports\, including and has authored (alone or with one of his 22 co-authors) over 50 papers published in refereed journals\, chapters in books\, or as articles\, at least some of which are sometimes cited. In addition to economics journals his work has appeared in specialized journals in demography\, education\, and health. In 2006 he published his first solo authored book\, Let Their People Come\, and in 2013 his second\, The Rebirth of Education: Schooling Ain’t Learning. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/book-launch-building-state-capability-evidence-analysis-action/ LOCATION:Allison Dining Room – Taubman 5th Floor END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170216T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170216T184500 DTSTAMP:20260507T030150 CREATED:20170113T011900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250910T004326Z UID:15051-1487266200-1487270700@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Security and Development Seminar: Inequality\, Crime\, and Development in Latin America DESCRIPTION:The third session in CID’s new Security and Development Seminar Series. Inequality as both Cause and Effect of Crime\, Violence in Latin America. This session will explore the causal relationships between inequality\, crime\, and violence\, understanding the former as a both cause and effect of the latter. The relative importance of proximate vs. root causes of crime and violence will also be debated. Speakers: Rodrigo R. Soares\, Lemann Professor of Brazilian Public Policy and International and Public Affairs Filipe R. Campante\, Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School João M P De Mello\, Lemann Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Emily Owens\, Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology\, Law and Society at the University of California\, Irvine There will be a live stream of the event on CID’s Facebook page. Seating capacity is 40. RSVP to cid@hks.harvard.edu to confirm a seat. This event is co-sponsored with: The David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies Harvard Kennedy School’s LATINX Caucus Harvard Kennedy School’s Brazilian Caucus URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/security-and-development-seminar-inequality-crime-and-development-in-latin-america/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170217T140000 DTSTAMP:20260507T030150 CREATED:20170121T002200Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175418Z UID:14959-1487336400-1487340000@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: Practical Economics - Economic Transformation and Government Reform in Georgia 2004-2012: A conversation with Nika Gilauri\, Georgia Prime Minister (2009-2012) DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nika Gilauri\, former Prime Minister of Georgia Nika Gilauri will present his book\, Practical Economics\, in which he provides a detailed analysis of the reforms made in Georgia. The book starts by discussing why the Georgian case is exemplary for other countries and proceeds to describe the fight against corruption\, the rightsizing of government\, the creation of a business-friendly environment\, tax and customs reform\, the privatization of state-owned enterprises\, energy sector reforms\, and smart spending approaches applied to welfare\, healthcare\, education\, and procurement. In some cases\, the description draws on the experiences of other countries\, either because they served as an inspiration for Georgia’s reforms or because approaches pioneered in Georgia were successfully applied there. In a nutshell\, this book is an attempt to answer one question: how do you manage a transformation to bring about fast and sustainable growth? In what follows\, Mr. Gilauri approaches this question from two angles: What is the right size for a government\, both in terms of its regulatory footprint and in terms of its budget in relation to the size of the economy? How do you ensure a government’s efficiency in terms of its decision making\, its interaction with the private sector\, its financial flows\, and the services it provides? The book concludes with a discussion of leadership\, in recognition of the fact that even the best approaches would not apply themselves. It takes determined leadership to make them work – the courage to fix what is broken\, to try innovative approaches\, and to learn from one’s mistakes.  So is this a book for leaders only\, for heads of state and government? Far from it. There is something here for everyone who takes an interest in public affairs – politicians\, civil servants\, consultants\, and all active citizens who may be interested in how governments function and how they can be transformed. This book also shows that none of the major economic theories stands the test of practical application. Some people believe that the state should redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor. Others believe that the freedom of enterprise is more important. Many believe that a monetarist approach is the best solution to the world’s economic problems\, while others favor Keynesian economics. In author’s experience\, none of these theories is universally applicable. Every given economic problem requires its own solution. This is why he advocates what he calls Practical Economics. Practical Economics is about finding the right mix of economic policies for a given country at a given moment. This book is about the mix of economic policies that transformed the Georgian economy between 2004 and 2012. While some of these policies may not be applicable to any other country\, the book makes the case that many of them are relevant for many countries\, developing as well as developed\, today. URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-practical-economics-economic-transformation-and-government-reform-in-georgia-2004-2012-a-conversation-with-nika-gilauri-georgia-prime-minister-2009-2012/ LOCATION:NEW LOCATION: Malkin Penthouse\, 4th Floor Littauer\, HKS END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170224T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170224T140000 DTSTAMP:20260507T030150 CREATED:20170123T194400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T175418Z UID:14954-1487941200-1487944800@growthlab.hks.harvard.edu SUMMARY:Lunch Seminar: Benefiting from Return Migration: Effects of Return Migration on Non-migrants' Wages and Employment DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Ljubica Nedelkoska is a Growth Lab research fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard University About the talk: When CID started its engagement in Albania\, a small developing economy bordering Greece\, our team was particularly worried about the negative spillovers that the unfolding debt crisis in Greece could bring about. In addition to the adverse effects on trade and investments\, the livelihoods of some 600\,000 Albanians living in Greece (over 20% of Albania’s population) and their remittance-receiving families were put at risk. Albanian migrants in Greece were particularly affected by the Greek crisis\, which spurred a wave of return migration that increased Albania’s labor force by 5% between 2011 and 2014 alone. We studied how this return migration affected the employment chances and earnings of Albanians who never migrated. Initially to our surprise\, we found positive effects on the wages of low-skilled non-migrants and overall positive effects on employment. The gains partially offset the sharp drop in remittances in the observed period and are probably triggered by return of know-how and financial capital. The employment gains are concentrated in the agricultural sector\, where most return migrants engage in self-employment and entrepreneurship. Businesses run by return migrants seem to pull Albanians from non-participation\, self-employment and subsistence agriculture into commercial agriculture. About the speaker: Ljubica’s research focuses on human capital\, migration\, lifelong learning\, capital-labor relations and structural transformation. She works at the intersection of research and policy\, and has contributed to several such projects in Albania\, Sri Lanka\, the Netherlands\, Sweden\, and Germany. She holds a PhD in Economics of Innovation from the Friedrich Schiller University\, Germany and a Master’s Degree in Public Administration from the Appalachian State University\, North Carolina. Before joining CID\, Ljubica worked as a post-doctoral researcher and a coordinator of the Research Group “Economics of Innovation” at the Friedrich Schiller University and as a research fellow at the Zeppelin University in Germany. Link to research paper: http://growthlab.cid.harvard.edu/publications/welcome-home-crisis-effects-return-migration-non-migrants-wages-and URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/lunch-seminar-benefiting-from-return-migration-effects-of-return-migration-on-non-migrants-wages-and-employment/ LOCATION:Perkins Room (R-415)\, 4th Floor Rubenstein\, HKS END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR