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Energy Transition: Who Are the African Champions?
November 17, 2025
Forbes Afrique: Produced by the Growth Lab, this index notably highlights several African countries. Here’s a closer look at the five leading continental countries.
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Will AI Democratize Access to Equity Financing?
November 14, 2025
Economists ponder how AI will transform labor markets, but a bigger impact might be elsewhere — in equity markets. In this op-ed for Project Syndicate, Ricardo Hausmann argues that AI could make it cheaper, safer, and more democratic to invest in and raise equity capital.
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Fellow, Economic Analysis and Data Management
The Growth Lab is seeking a highly motivated Fellow to contribute to our research on urban economics, innovation, and human capital formation, focusing on analyzing large-scale data on individuals, firms, […]
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow
The Growth Lab is currently seeking an early or late postdoctoral researcher to join its team. The Growth Lab is an academic research program housed at the Harvard Kennedy School […]
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Aurélien Saussay
Visiting Fellow
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Azerbaijan, Harvard launch upgraded Green Growth Portal to drive global energy transition
November 12, 2025
Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Economy, in collaboration with Harvard University’s Growth Lab, has launched an enhanced version of the Green Growth Portal, initially introduced last year during COP29 in Baku.
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Mexico Projects & Research
Deforestation is often treated as inevitable to serve the economic needs of human populations, local and global. However, our research in the Peruvian and Colombian Amazon finds that forest loss is not inevitable. The research identifies opportunities to achieve shared prosperity without sacrificing the forest by increasing the complexity of the neglected cities of the Amazon.
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Tunisia most competitive African country in green value chains
November 11, 2025
African Manager: Tunisia stands out as the most competitive country in Africa in green value chains, according to the Greenplexity Index.
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In Search of a D-ESG Framework for Emerging Markets: What about Environment?

November 18 | 10:15 am–11:30 am

Lourdes Casanova, Senior Lecturer of Management at the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Business, Cornell University, will discuss the expanded ESG framework highlighting how sustainable growth in emerging economies requires aligning development, environmental, social, and governance goals within corporate and policy strategies.
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Investment in Infrastructure and Trade: The Case of Ports

November 17 | 10:15 am–11:30 am

Theodore Papageorgiou, Felter Family Professor of Economics at Boston College, will discuss new research that quantifies the costs of port disruptions and evaluates transportation infrastructure investment.