Category: Senegal

Industrial Development and Economic Diversification in Senegal

Guest blog by Olivier Stoullig, LEG ’22 Here are some of my key ideas/learnings from the Leading Economic Growth course: Measuring a country’s growth potential through its complexity- Growth happens by accumulating letters and matching consonants (productive know-how) with vowels (public goods) to make the longest possible words. Technology has 3 facets: tools, or embodied…Continue Reading Industrial Development and Economic Diversification in Senegal

Structural transformation of rural agriculture in Senegal

Guest blog by Racine Ba, LEG ’22 My impressions after ten weeks of intense reflections on the concepts and challenges of growth is that the Leading Economic Growth course at the Harvard Kennedy School constitutes an exceptional framework for learning interactive processes that allow you to apprehend growth issues in a pragmatic way. If I…Continue Reading Structural transformation of rural agriculture in Senegal