Building The Wave
Written by Lant Pritchett My main objective is to cross-post this Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) blog, Learning From What We Do and Doing What We Learn: What We Gain from […]
Latin America & Caribbean
Improving Public Education in Panama
Guest blog by Antonio Saad In 2018 I decided to start a certification in public policies at Harvard, understanding that the great challenges that my country faces, require a deep […]
Promoting Child Development by Improving Care Quality in Public and Private Institutions in Mexico
Guest blog by Miriam Gastélum Aispuro When I got accepted for the IPP Harvard Program, I was happy relief. I thought, “WOW,” we will finally have the answers to the […]
Tax Administration in Trinidad and Tobago
Guest blog by Chiedza Juru, Gigi Hui, Michael Bediako, Manuel Sada Vazquez, Therese Wagner As we found out throughout this course, the challenges faced by the Government of Trinidad and […]
Exploring Labor Market Challenges in Bogotá, Colombia
Guest blog by Soraya Mohideen, Shunta Takino, Michaela Tobin, Akinobu Toyoda, Andres Valenciano Writing a team constitution seemed like a tedious step, but it was vital and something that we […]
Tackling Traffic Congestion in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Guest blog by Romeo Ramlakhan, IPP ’22 “Good luck with that!” Those where the exact same words an elected official in City Hall told me in the early days of […]
Using PDIA to Implement Health Priorities for the Presidential Election in Argentina
Guest blog by Adolfo Rubinstein, IPP ’22 Having been minister of health of my country during the previous administration (2017-2019), I felt fairly confident in my own policy-making abilities but, […]
Learnings from LEG & Exploring Growth Challenges in El Salvador
Guest Blog by Abdi Aguirre, LEG ’22 When I enrolled in the Leading Economic Growth Program of the Harvard Kennedy School, I thought that I was clear about the economic challenge […]
Tackling corrupt taxation practices in Trinidad & Tobago through PDIA
Guest blog by Amrita Deonarine, IPP 2021 I came across this methodology of Problem-driven Iterative Adaptation (PDIA) in 2020 at the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic when global energy prices […]
Driving Financial Inclusion in Peru using PDIA Approach
Guest blog by Jennifer A. Infantas, IPP 2021 When we think about designing public policies, we need to understand the needs that we are trying to solve and who will […]