Rapid Inflation and its Implication in the UAE
Guest blog by Tariq Alsuwaidi, LEG’23 The realization that addressing inflation is essential to achieving sustainable economic development is one of the most important things that may be gained from […]
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New Podcast: Andrew Lawson Reflects on his Evaluation of PDIA in Africa
We have released a new episode in our podcast series A Decade of Building State Capability. Our second episode of the series features Andrew Lawson who did an independent evaluation of […]
New Podcast Series: A Decade of Building State Capability
This past year, Building State Capability (BSC) celebrated its 10-year anniversary. To commemorate this milestone, we are very excited to launch our new podcast series, A Decade of Building State […]
Lack of Infrastructure Funding for Communities in Wyoming
Guest blog by Kiley Ingersoll, LEG’23 Over the course, there are so many ideas and take aways I learned. However, one of the most valuable was the relationships I gained […]
Insufficient Housing in Western Australia
Guest blog by Jason Whiteaker, LEG’23 I came into this program thinking about how the program would help me identify solutions to the growth challenges being faced by my region. […]
Reducing Income Inequality in South Africa
Guest blog by Sibusiso Thami Gambi, LEG’23 A key learning from the course is that, simply put: context matters. One cannot simply apply “best practices” blanketly. There is a ready […]
Building Coalitions and Empowering Local Leaders in Papua New Guinea
written by Salimah Samji 31 Developmental Leaders from across seven provinces in Papua New Guinea (PNG), working to reduce Sorcery Accusation Related Violence (SARV) and other complex problems, who successfully […]
How does a resource-rich state collaborate to increase economic confidence?
Guest blog by Kristin Fong I’ve enjoyed the Leading Economic Growth (LEG) course immensely and some of the key takeaways I’ll continue to utilize regularly in the future are (1) […]
Exploring how Shenzhen can increase circular/regenerative entrepreneurship
Guest blog by Gordana Kierans, LEG’23 Due to my four years at the Shenzhen Technology University in China, where I taught, among other subjects, the circular economy and systems thinking, […]
A Lesson on Complexity, Curiosity, and Modesty
Guest blog by Albeck Yair, LEG’23 While it seemed at the beginning of the program that we all in our working group are facing the same problems, along the program […]