Europe & Central Asia

Economic growth strategies in North Macedonia

Guest blog by Jones Anthony – Growth challenge: Slower economic growth compared to neighboring countries      – Country/region/municipality: North Macedonia (NM) I gained a deep understanding of several key economic growth and […]

Exploring economic diversification in Azerbaijan

Guest blog by Gasimli Vusal “Leading Economic Growth” program gave us the know-how we can start implementing to promote economic growth in our city, region, or country at this difficult time. Staff […]

Improving Food Safety Standards in Ukraine

Guest blog by Kateryna Onul The COVID-19 crisis has coincided with reform within my organization and an urgent need to find new approaches to working with the public sector in different […]

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Countering Radicalization in France

Guest blog written by Mer Carattini, Sasha Mathew, Imara Salas, Kishan Shah, Katie Wesdyk The PDIA process taught us how to turn a ‘wicked problem’—a highly complex tangle of many […]

Exploring Legal Education Reform in Ukraine

Guest blog written by Ilhom Aliyev, Yousif Folathi Alkhoori, Manoj Kumar, Mike Ramirez, Frederick Tarantino MLD 103MA: Problem Driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) in Action: Development Through Facilitated Emergence is among the […]

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Reflecting on the Growth of Agriculture in Albania

Guest blog written by Lorena Pullumbi The Leading Economic Growth course has been an absolutely inspiring intellectual journey for me. Having taken place during unprecedented times and mostly under lockdown, it was a unique opportunity to truly reflect on key principles of economic growth while using that toolset to better understand the unfolding of policy choices and drivers of economic growth for my own country (as a policy professional working for the administration, you don’t always […]