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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: Paying for Success: Innovative Designs for Social Impact
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Max Bode\, Junior Partner at Instiglio 	About the talk: In the last decade\, Results-Based Financing (RBF) has gained tremendous momentum in the international development space. Now\, about $30 billion in funding have been disbursed through RBF mechanisms in 78 low and middle-income countries. The promise of RBF is simple: by tying the funding of social services to results\, RBF drives results. It does so through aligning incentives\, introducing accountability\, encouraging prioritization\, and allowing for learning and flexible adaptation in implementation. Anchored in Instiglio’s experience in designing impact bonds\, outcomes markets\, and national-to-local government transfers\, Instiglio’s Junior Partner and HKS alumni Max Bode will discuss RBF’s track-record and potential to deliver on its promise of making social services more impactful. The talk will draw on a systematic review of trends in RBF\, and case studies of education\, workforce development\, and poverty alleviation projects in India\, Colombia\, Morocco\, and Kenya. \nAbout the speaker: Max heads the Washington DC office’s client engagement\, fundraising\, talent recruitment effort\, and provides strategic and technical guidance on Instiglio’s Africa portfolio. Prior to joining\, Max was a civil servant and ODI Fellow in Zanzibar’s Ministry of Health\, worked with Rwanda’s Ministry of Finance\, and investigated the effectiveness of social interventions as a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Development. Max holds an MPA/ID from the Harvard Kennedy School\, a Masters from Barcelona Graduate School of Economics\, and a Bachelors from Maastricht University.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-paying-for-success-innovative-designs-for-social-impact/
LOCATION:Perkins Room – Rubenstein 4th Floor R-429
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171011T130000
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series Seminar: Asian Development Bank’s 2017 Economic Forecast for Asia and the Pacific
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Yasuyuki Sawada\, Chief Economist and Chief Spokesperson on economic and development trends\, Asian Development Bank 	About the talk: The Asian Development Bank’s flagship economic publication Asian Development Outlook (ADO) provides a comprehensive analysis of macroeconomic issues in developing Asia. The ADO Update examines the prospects for developing Asia by sub-region: Central Asia\, East Asia\, South Asia\, Southeast Asia\, and the Pacific. This year’s ADO Update theme chapter\, Sustaining Development Through Public-Private Partnerships\, explores how Asia can use public-private partnerships (PPPs) to bolster infrastructure investment. The presentation will address: 	• Economic prospects for developing Asia and the Pacific• Key risks to the region’s outlook• Implications of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet normalization for Asia• What is behind the recent uptick in trade and whether it can be sustained• Measures governments can take to promote PPPs and ensure their success About the Speaker: Yasuyuki Sawada is the chief spokesperson for ADB on economic and development trends\, and leads the Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department\, which publishes ADB’s flagship knowledge products. Dr. Sawada previously served as a Professor in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Tokyo. He also performed research at a variety of institutions\, such as the Japan International Cooperation Agency Research Institute; the World Bank; Economic Research Institute of ASEAN and East Asia; Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies; Pakistan Institute of Development Economics; International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines; International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka; Research Institute of Economy\, Trade\, and Industry in Japan; and Japan Society of Promotion of Science\, where he led a number of large-scale development policy evaluation projects in Asia and other developing countries. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed research articles on diversified topics pertaining to Asia and other developing countries ranging from macro development issues\, such as long-term economic growth and structural change\, sovereign debt sustainability\, foreign aid\, trade\, ageing and social security\, and natural and man-made disasters to micro issues of poverty\, education\, infrastructure\, microenterprises\, microfinance\, health\, and disabilities. 	This event is co-sponsored with: \n	  	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-seminar-asian-development-banks-2017-economic-forecast-for-asia-and-the-pacific/
LOCATION:Allison Dining Room – Taubman Building 5th floor
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171013T120000
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: How did Venezuela Degenerate Into a Failed State and How Can it Recover?
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Douglas Barrios\, Research Fellow at CID; Ricardo Villasmil\, Research Fellow at CID. 	  	About the talk: In this event\, we try to shed some light on Venezuela’s ongoing socioeconomic and political crisis through two complementary perspectives: the economic and the institutional. We will trace the origins of the crisis to policies taken during the oil price boom\, discuss the self-destructing nature of current policies and present an agenda for democratic governance and socioeconomic recovery. About the Speakers:	  \nDouglas Barrios a Growth Lab Fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard University. Before joining CID he worked in McKinsey’s Bogotá office as a Public Sector Specialist where he served public and social sector organizations throughout Latin America in a broad set of topics ranging from ICT promotion strategies to education policy design. Other previous experience include serving as an external policy adviser for local governments as well as political campaigns in Venezuela. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Universidad Metropolitana (Venezuela) and a Masters in Public Administration and International Development at the Harvard Kennedy School (MPA-ID 2012). His research interests are focused on urban dynamics\, natural resource extraction and rent management\, behavioral economics and the political economics behind policy design. 	  \nRicardo Villasmil is a Research Fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard University. Before joining CID\, he worked in private consulting in Venezuela managing projects on a wide range of strategic and organizational issues for over a decade. His interests in development economics led him to the Andrés Bello Catholic University and to the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración (IESA)\, where he has been teaching courses in development and macroeconomics for the past fifteen years. Ricardo’s involvement in public policy dates back to 1998\, when he joined Venezuela’s Congressional Budget Office and the Ministry of Finance two years later. His interests in the practice of development prompted him to take advisory roles for Teodoro Petkoff in the 2006 runoff presidential election\, for the democratic coalition between 2006 and 2012 and for presidential candidate Henrique Capriles as Head of his Public Policy Team in 2012. Ricardo holds a Master in Public Policy from IESA\, a Master in Public Administration from Harvard University and a PhD in Economics from Texas A&M University.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-how-did-venezuela-degenerate-into-a-failed-state-and-how-can-it-recover/
LOCATION:Perkins Room – R-429 Rubenstein 4th floor
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: The Drivers of International Development
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Rt Hon. Andrew Mitchell\, British MP and Former Secretary of State for International Development 	About the talk: In the Globalisation era there are no longer far off places about which we know little. Our generations have the ability to do something about the colossal discrepancies of opportunity and wealth which disfigure our world. How should we grasp this opportunity? What will have the most effect? How do we reform the Rules based international system? Does international justice matter? Why we should all be optimists? 	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 Secretary of State for International Development from 2010 to 2012. 	Mitchell was elected President of the Cambridge Union in 1978. Before university\, he served for several months as a United Nations military peacekeeper in Cyprus. He has extensive pre-government experience of the developing world\, and is the founder of Project Umubano\, a Conservative Party social action project in Rwanda and Sierra Leone in central and west Africa\, launched in 2007. 	Mitchell was returned as MP for Sutton Coldfield at the 2017 general election\, with a reduced majority.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-the-drivers-of-international-development/
LOCATION:Bell Hall – 5th Floor Belfer Building
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171027T120000
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: Financial Inclusion and the Fintech Revolution:  Key Trends Emerging in the New Digital World
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Victoria White\, Managing Director\, Global Advisory Solutions\, Accion 	About the talk: Around the world\, nearly 3 billion people have little to no access to the formal financial sector. They worry about how to pay school fees for their children\, whether there will be enough to eat in the coming weeks\, or whether they will be able to afford the medical care needed for a sick relative. For them\, lacking access to financial services makes each of these basic transactions extremely challenging. For the past 55 years\, Accion has been working with local financial institutions and now more recently with innovative fintech disruptors to change that. The digital revolution is changing nearly every aspect of how we live our lives\, including how we bank\, borrow and save. Join us for a discussion of how Accion and its partners are harnessing key digital trends to make quality financial services more accessible and cost effective to those who have been excluded. 	About the Speaker: Victoria White has worked with Accion since 2000. She serves as a member of the senior management team and holds responsibility for overseeing Accion’s advisory support to its partners as Managing Director\, Global Advisory Solutions. She also serves as a board director for a number of these institutions. Previously\, Ms. White was Accion’s Regional Head for Asia. In this capacity\, she was responsible for Accion’s management and technical services relationships with partner microfinance institutions\, as well as for providing oversight of Accion’s investments in Asia. Prior to this\, she supported Accion’s partners in Africa in such areas as strategic planning\, bank downscaling\, institutional transformation planning\, and financial management. 	Ms. White is co-author of Transforming Microfinance Institutions: Providing Full Financial Services to the Poor and Institutional Metamorphosis: Transformation of Microfinance NGOs into Regulated Financial Institutions\, a contributing author to Commercialization of Microfinance: Balancing Business and Development\, and author of A Case Study in Transformation: The Creation of Uganda Microfinance Limited. 	Before working with Accion\, Ms. White was a senior advisor for Calmeadow’s international operations\, performing financial evaluations and transformation planning for MFIs throughout Africa. She has also worked as a program analyst for USAID’s Office of Microenterprise Development\, both in Washington and in the South Africa mission. Prior to entering the microfinance field\, Ms. White was a bank examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Ms. White holds an M.A. in international affairs from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a B.A. in political science and French from Wellesley College.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-financial-inclusion-and-the-fintech-revolution-key-trends-emerging-in-the-new-digital-world/
LOCATION:Perkins Room – Rubenstein 4th Floor – R-429
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171031T163000
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SUMMARY:CID Speaker Series: A Steep Price: The Economics of Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Laura Jaitman\, Research Economist\, Inter-American Development Bank 	About the talk: Latin America and the Caribbean is the most violent region on earth\, with a homicide rate that is 4 times the global average. In this talk\, first recent estimates of the economic cost of crime will be presented\, and LAC high crime rates will be discussed within the Becker crime economics framework. Second\, an innovative theoretical extension to this framework will be presented concerning the relationship between the production of durable goods and crime. Finally\, specific policy implications for LAC countries will be explored. \nDr. Laura Jaitman is an Economist at the Research Department of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). She joined the IDB in 2014\, where she previously coordinated the research agenda for the Citizen Security and Justice sector. Her principal area of research is the economics of crime\, development economics\, and the evaluation of crime prevention and crime control strategies. Before joining the IDB\, she worked as a consultant at the World Bank\, the IDB\, and J-PAL in different developed and developing countries. Overall\, Jaitman has more than a decade of working experience in the field of public policy. Jaitman holds a Ph.D. in Economics from University College London\, UK. Her work has been published in international peer reviewed journals\, such as the Economic Journal\, and featured in international media.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/cid-speaker-series-a-steep-price-the-economics-of-crime-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean/
LOCATION:Perkins Room – Rubenstein 4th Floor R-429
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