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SUMMARY:Development Talk: A Conversation with Indermit Gill\, Chief Economist of the World Bank
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s “Development Talks” is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working on economic growth and development in countries\, regions\, states and cities in the US and around the world. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both economic growth and development and analytical work centered on policy. 	Speaker: Indermit Gill\, Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics 	Moderator: Dany Bahar\, Associate Professor\, Brown University’s Watson Institute; Senior Research Fellow\, Growth Lab 	Whether attending in-person or virtually\, please register in advance. Room attendance is limited to the Harvard community. Seating availability is based on a first-come\, first-served basis. Lunch will be provided. The Zoom webinar is open to the public. \nAbout the speaker: 	Indermit Gill is Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics. He brings to the role a broad combination of leadership\, expertise\, and practical experience working with governments on macroeconomic imbalances\, growth\, poverty\, institutions\, conflict\, and climate change. 	Before starting this position on September 1\, 2022\, Gill served as the World Bank’s Vice President for Equitable Growth\, Finance\, and Institutions\, where he played a key role in shaping the Bank’s response to the extraordinary series of shocks that have hit developing economies since 2020. Between 2016 and 2021\, he was a professor of public policy at Duke University and non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Global Economy and Development program.
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/development-talk-a-conversation-with-indermit-gill-chief-economist-of-the-world-bank/
LOCATION:Malkin Penthouse / Zoom (registration info below)
CATEGORIES:Development Talks
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SUMMARY:Research Seminar: The Role of Green & Non-Green Relatedness in the Development of New Green Specialization in Argentinean Provinces
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab’s Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	Register for the session. 	In this Research Seminar\, Andrea Belmartino will analyze the role of relatedness in developing new green specialisations for the Argentinean provinces between 2008-2019. Even though the global demand for green products creates development opportunities\, whether this applies to emerging economies is still under analysis. Therefore\, exploring how to leverage available capacities to facilitate the green transition is worthwhile. Her study draws on indices that capture knowledge bases to achieve this goal. Results show that developing a new green specialisation is positively related to productive capabilities\, proxied by relatedness density (green and non-green). In addition\, there the path dependent process benefits more wealthier provinces. 	About the Speaker: 	Andrea Belmartino is a PhD fellow in Urban Studies and Regional Science at Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) in L’Aquila (Italy). She holds a MA in Economics from Universidad Nacional de La Plata (Argentina). She was a research assistant at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata (Argentina). Her current research interests are related to regional capabilities to foster the green transition. In addition\, she is especially interested in the sustainability challenges and opportunities for Latin American economies. Since 2023\, she is co-coordinating the Regional Studies Association’s Research Network “Knowledge\, Innovation and Regional Development in South America (KIRDSA)”
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/research-seminar-the-role-of-green-non-green-relatedness-in-the-development-of-new-green-specialization-in-argentinean-provinces/
LOCATION:Online Only
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Fighting for Growth: Labor Scarcity and Technological Progress During the British Industrial Revolution
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development. 	This session is online only. Please register in advance.  	In this seminar\, Bruno Caprettini will discuss new data and present new evidence on the effects of labor scarcity on the adoption of labor-saving technology in industrializing England. Where the British armed forces recruited heavily\, more machines that economized on labor were adopted. For purposes of identification\, we focus on naval recruitment. Using warships’ ease of access to coastal locations as an instrument\, exogenous shocks to labor scarcity led to technology adoption. The same shocks are only weakly associated with the adoption of non-labor saving technologies. Importantly\, there is also a synergy between skill abundance and labor scarcity boosting technology adoption. Where labor shortages led to labor-saving machine adoption\, technology afterwards improved more rapidly. 	About the Speaker: Bruno Caprettini is Assistant Professor at the University of St Gallen\, where he is affiliated with the Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research (SIAW). He holds a PhD from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). He is interested in the determinants of long-term growth\, both economic and political. Some of his work appeared on AER\, QJE and AER-Insights. 	 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/fighting-for-growth-labor-scarcity-and-technological-progress-during-the-british-industrial-revolution/
LOCATION:Online Only
CATEGORIES:Academic Research Seminars
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SUMMARY:Global and Regional Green Steel Transition: From Resource Potential to Supply Chain Re-configuration
DESCRIPTION:The Growth Lab Research Seminar series is a weekly seminar that brings together researchers from across the academic spectrum who share an interest in growth and development.Speakers:Alli Devlin is a DPhil in Engineering Science Candidate at the University of Oxford.Aidong Yang is a Professor of Engineering Science and a Fellow of Green Templeton College\, Oxford.Today’s steel industry is one of the top industrial emitters\, responsible for ~8% of global carbon emissions. Decarbonising steelmaking is thus attracting significant attention of industrial players and policymakers\, with the green transition already gaining momentum in some countries (e.g.\, Sweden)\, although most steel production is still deeply reliant on fossil fuels. This transition will be a huge undertaking\, with great challenges in resource\, technology\, and economics to overcome. In this seminar\, the authors will focus on the physical aspects of green steelmaking\, sharing recent and ongoing mathematical modelling work on (1) understanding global resource potential for deploying green steel facilities\, particularly addressing the availability of renewable energy and suitable iron ore\, and (2) exploring potentially favourable supply chain (re-) configurations at the regional scale\, taking into account a wide range of technological options and their geographical allocation. The results highlight key opportunities and challenges from technical perspectives\, which will hopefully provide useful input to wider discussions about the green steel transition involving economics\, policies and development agendas. 	This seminar is online only. Please register in advance. 
URL:https://growthlab.hks.harvard.edu/event/global-and-regional-green-steel-transition-from-resource-potential-to-supply-chain-re-configuration/
LOCATION:Zoom (registration information below)
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