Learning to Lead Economic Growth during COVID-19
Guest blog written by Yakama Jones My country suffered from the Ebola crisis six years ago, experienced negative growth rates and is yet to attain pre-Ebola growth rates. It is […]
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4 Ways to Rethink Economic Growth During COVID-19
Guest blog written by Manuela Fulga The pandemic threatens to erase years of progress made by developing and emerging economies towards sustainable development. The World Bank estimates that between 71 […]
LA FÁBRICA, a strategy for the economic transformation and social inclusion of Renca, a commune in Chile
Guest blog written by Gabriela Elgueta P Photograph: Cerro de Renca, Matias Peralta @matias.fpl In the midst of the pandemic, I began this course when Chile had 300 deaths and […]
Learning about Economic Growth in the Middle of a Pandemic
Guest blog written by Beenish Amjad I was afraid that the onslaught of the pandemic would have devastating impact on a developing country like Pakistan which has a strong history […]
A Problem-driven Approach to Complexity, Public Policy and Economic Growth
Guest blog written by Claudio Roberto Amitrano What is development? How is it driven? How can we get there? Who is it for? What do countries have in common? What […]
Bringing the Field to the Classroom: Learning to do PDIA in Practice
written by Salimah Samji Implementation is hard. It is often the weakest link in the success of a policy or program. Yet, public policy education remains focused on teaching students […]
PDIA and Coordination Challenges within Government
Guest blog written by Nevena Bosnic, Mehdi El Boukhari, Ama Peiris, Matthew Welchert Over the past seven weeks, our group embarked on the learning journey of problem driven iterative adaptation […]
Leading Economic Growth 2020: Moving Executive Education Online during a Pandemic
written by Salimah Samji In March 2020, Harvard University decided to move all classes to online-only, in an effort to de-densify our campus and to slow the spread of COVID-19. […]
Becoming Comfortable with Complexity: Maternal Mortality in Meghalaya
Guest blog written by Rebecca Trupin, Prateek Mittal Our PDIA journey began with our authorizer, a senior bureaucrat in the State Government of Meghalaya, sharing a document with us about […]
PDIA and Dementia in the Workplace
Guest blog written by Tamsir Cham, Andrea Hayes, Fateme Najafi, Aysha Valery Overall, we learned that the PDIA process is about being patient, digging deep into a problem, continuing to […]