Guest blog written by Lili Vessereau, Boris Houenou, Daniel Saka Mbumba, Daksh Baheti We are a team at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS), enrolled in the Problem Driven Interactive Adaptation (PDIA) course taught by Professor Matt Andrews and Ms. Salimah Samji at HKS. As a team of development and policy practitioners, during Spring 2024, we used…Continue Reading Building Bridges to Economic Growth in Laramie, Wyoming
Guest blog by Cindy Xin, Zeeshan Ali, Aleksandar Jakovljević, Kelly Jian The 6-week adventure of how four people who have never been to Zambia fell in love with the country and its challenges in attracting investment. January 2024. In our first week of the PDIA course, Salimah Samji (the Instructor) listed 8 possible topics that…Continue Reading InvestZambia and the Unknown Economics
Guest blog by Anna Rhee, Barkha Tripathi, Naomi Beyth-Zoran, Freddy Guevara Key Learnings from the Course Working in teams: As aspiring policy practitioners, we never thought as fundamentally and structurally about group-work as we did in this course. Oftentimes, work is not mobilized or its potential remains unmet because people are struggling to align and…Continue Reading Reimagining the Future of Wyoming
Guest blog by Joshua Amaral, LEG’23 I was fortunate to be in a very diverse group, in terms of geographic location, industry, and experience. But given this, I was especially struck by the similarities, or common threads, that ran between all of our economic growth challenges. My challenge is a fairly small one in the…Continue Reading Enabling Emerging Developers to Increase Housing Development in New Bedford, MA
Guest blog by Ghada Abuzaid, LEG’23 Cities and countries can create vibrant economies out of the blues, putting in place the right ingredients, driven by the right people and institutions, using the right tools. But it takes a steep climb. It takes action, learning, agility and patience, trust and legitimacy to pursue higher scale the…Continue Reading Who Owns the Future and How to Lead Economic Growth in Egypt?
Guest blog by Wendy Koh, LEG’23 Throughout this course, I have gained valuable insights into the complexities of economic growth. Some key ideas and learnings that I will take away:…Continue Reading Economic Opportunities for Indigenous Communities in British Columbia
Guest blog by Fabian Klinge, LEG’23 The past ten weeks have been a fantastic learning journey for me. The course has managed to strike an ideal balance between policy and implementation – between cutting-edge theoretical approaches to analyzing growth challenges on the one hand, and practice-based strategies for bringing about change in real-world (development) settings…Continue Reading Diversification of the Export Economy in Bangladesh
Guest blog by Alvina Sharpe, IPP’23 Some key learnings from this course are about being or managing oneself to be a strategic lead. A leader who understands the direction of his or the team goal(s) and is in the position to clearly articulate the goal to the least person in the organization for understanding. It…Continue Reading Strategic Leadership for Revenue Collection in Liberia
We are offering Strategies for Inclusive Growth at the Harvard Kennedy School from April 28 – May 3rd 2024. Application deadline is March 25th, 2024. Paths to economic prosperity are rapidly evolving. Policymakers struggle to meet economic goals as growth remains unsustainable, non-inclusive, or just plain stuck. Organizations often rely on one-size-fits-all approaches that fail to meet…Continue Reading Apply for our Strategies for Inclusive Growth Executive Program!
We have released a new episode in our podcast series A Decade of Building State Capability. In this episode, BSC Director Salimah Samji interviews Ricardo Hausmann, Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at the Harvard Kennedy School and founder and Director of Harvard’s Growth Lab. In this episode, Ricardo describes his…Continue Reading New Podcast: Ricardo Hausmann Reflects on his Engagement with BSC
