Guest Blog by Samira Musayeva, LEG ’23 “Leading Economic Growth” program is a valuable learning process that in a very attractive “language” explains the use of creative and effective tools that allow defining a specific approach for each economy. It defines a new view on the context of economic reforms and their subsequent implementation. Azerbaijan…Continue Reading Driving Inclusive Economic Growth for Azerbaijan
Guest blog by Fernando Ocampo, LEG ’23 “Development is really about the acquisition of social capabilities and what are the stumbling blocks in the process of acquiring those capabilities, and how we can think of ways to overcome these things. What are the points of entry of mental frameworks that we can have in the…Continue Reading Building Costa Rican Capabilities to Generate Employment
Guest blog by Renny MacKay, LEG ’23 The LEG course offered incredible ideas related to understanding the economics of growth – or the lack thereof – specific to countries and metro areas. The product space illustrates a path towards expanding industries, growth diagnostics help to use price signals to best identify what is binding expansion….Continue Reading Addressing Economic Challenges in Wyoming
Guest blog by Caroline Lee-Schmid, LEG ’23 Embarking on the Harvard Executive Leading Economic Growth program under Harvard’s Building State Capability Program tutelage was akin to setting sail on a transformative odyssey. Over the immersive 10-week period, the richness of learning experiences and insights gained was nothing short of extraordinary. It’s not just the knowledge gained…Continue Reading Unveiling Growth through Harvard’s LEG: A Journey of Learning and Transformation
Guest blog by Dmytro Lyvch, LEG ’23 As you may probably know, Ukraine is now facing one of the biggest challenges of the decade – full scale war that has its dramatic outcomes for the society and economy of Ukraine (GDP has dropped by 29% in 2022; total damages and losses accounted for ca USD…Continue Reading Organizing for Success: Ukraine’s Economic Recovery Post-War and EU Integration
Guest blog by Aliyu Aboki, LEG ’23 One of the best decisions I have made in a long time was applying for and gaining admission into the Harvard Leading Economic Growth course. It has given me the ability to analyse my growth problem, Nigeria’s Limited Broadband Infrastructure, as if it is like a 2015 journey…Continue Reading Limited Broadband Infrastructure in Nigeria
Guest blog by Jaime A. Garron B., LEG ’23 As a trained economist and international development practitioner with experience in diverse country settings, I can confidently say that common sense is perhaps the least common of the senses when it comes to public policy design and implementation, for a variety of reasons and circumstances. This…Continue Reading Productivity Growth and Job Creation in Guatemala
Guest blog by Farah Ismail, LEG ’23 The main economic problem that concerns me about my country (the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) is the over reliance of its economy on one resource, fossil fuel. Saudi Arabia’s economy has always been very oil dependent, between the years 1970 and 2000 the oil economy was constantly between…Continue Reading Diversifying an Oil Based Economy in Saudi Arabia
Guest blog by Ron Gullberg, LEG ’23 Lions and camels and hippos, oh my! The Leading Economic Growth (LEG) course provided the necessary tools – and wild kingdom metaphors – to navigate the complexities of identifying and addressing binding constraints to growth in Wyoming as a state and in communities….Continue Reading Economic Resilience in Wyoming
Guest blog by Langa Kopio, Herry Mek, Frank Awape, Linson Karu, Joe Willie Over the past 7 weeks our team has been working on our problem statement, which is the ‘Lack of Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting on the Capital Investment Budget (CIB) in Papua New Guinea’. We started off with the lack of governance in…Continue Reading Lack of Monitoring and Reporting on the Capital Investment Budget in Papua New Guinea
