Guest blog by Member Feese When I registered for the course my conception of public policy was the public definition – a course of action developed by a government in response to public problems. However, I was pleasantly surprised when the course began. I realised that public policy is not only for government but for all…Continue Reading Fast-tracking Nigeria’s economic recovery
Guest blog written by Murtala Mohammad Abubakar The understanding of Public Policy Implementation became a necessity for me after my appointment as the Senior Special Assistant on SDGs to the Executive Governor of Nasarawa State, Nigeria. My career path has, up till then been in the Private sector where the main aim is profiteering as…Continue Reading Encouraging Nigeria’s youth to engage in agribusiness
Guest blog written by Nathalie Gazzaneo, Tendai Mvuvu, Rodrigo Tejada, Matt Weber On a winter’s afternoon in early February this year, a Mexican MPP1, a Brazilian MPP2, a Zimbabwean MC-MPA and an American MC-MPA randomly stepped up to the plate of abandoned projects in Nigeria. We, the four students and travelers, had never crossed our…Continue Reading Abandoned Infrastructure Projects in Nigeria
Guest blog written by Bishal Belbase, John Diing, Mayra Hoyos, Stephanie Shalkoski As a pedagogical procedure for learning Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation a group of four students from Mexico, Nepal, the United States, and South Sudan studied bilateral trade between Kenya and Canada with the help of an external authorizer: Dr. George Imbenzi, Honorary Consul General…Continue Reading From Pyrethrum Exports to the Knowledge Economy: Exploring Trade Between Kenya and Canada
Guest blog written by Edward Adamu When I first thought of my policy implementation challenge, it appeared daunting, knowing that past policy attempts had not yielded any dependable solution to the problem. When I constructed the problem, it became even more frightening. As I went further to deconstruct the problem, I realized it was indeed a…Continue Reading Increasing Tomato Production in Nigeria
Guest blog written by Allan Franklin, Dana Radojevic, Hesham Gaafar, Lauren Truong Over the past 8 weeks, we had the opportunity to work with the National Blood Transfusion Service (NBTS) on the lack of safe blood in Nigeria. The lack of safe blood during emergencies such as car accidents or postpartum hemorrhages has led to…Continue Reading Tackling Blood Safety in Nigeria
This is a blog written by Kagiso Maphalle, an alumnus of the Implementing Public Policy Executive Education Program at the Harvard Kennedy School….Continue Reading Though the flesh has departed, the spirit will be honoured
Guest blog written by Noelma Viegas D’Abreu I: Key Ideas and Learning LEG helped me demystify something very important: Economy is not only a science of accounting, finance, taxes and interest. Over the years, I was curious about economic theories and some approaches, reading and studying phenomena of leadership, change, growth, politics and development in…Continue Reading Learning about Economic Growth in Angola
Guest blog written by Penelope Tainton I’ve made some interesting choices in my life. They may not always have been the best decisions for my own long-term prospects, but without fail, they have taken me on journeys of discovery and growth. Always stemming from my over-riding desire to “fix” things, to contribute, to make a…Continue Reading Wrapping Up: My Leading Economic Growth Journey
Guest blog written by Fred D. Koilor What if this was a one-week journey? Well, many things about the Leading Economic Growth (Online) course probably would not have been the same. Firstly, I can certainly say that students would not have had ample time to digest the course materials and make adequate appreciation of knowledge…Continue Reading Economic Growth in Liberia: 10 Weeks to Remember
