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 Tiina Kalliola, Heidi Kiuru, Marianna Niemi-Korhonen, Ia Pellinen, Marjaana Martinez de Pinillo In March 2024, we began our three-month Harvard training with anticipation. 24 people from regional cooperation networks for children and young people were selected to participate in the training. The City of Helsinki organized PDIA training with Harvard University. PDIA…Continue Reading Restless Behavior of Children and Young People in the Kannelmäki Urban Renewal Area
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 Sari Della Spina, Anniina Enovaara, Marjut Kauppinen, Marjaana Risku Helsinki is, on the scale of Finland, a city of its own, with challenges typical to itself. The number of residents who speak foreign languages is one of Helsinki’s new characteristic phenomena. Services are taking shape to meet the needs of an increasingly…Continue Reading Problems in Parenting in Helsinki, Absent Fathers
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 Johanna Marttila, Mari Luolamaa, Laura Leino, Mia Kivioja, Antti Lehto-Raevuori Parents from multicultural / immigrant backgrounds are isolated and segregated. That´s why parents are not adapting into society. Meri-Rastila is facing a large-scale urban renewal project which will see the construction of new homes for up to 4, 400 new residents and…Continue Reading Integrating Immigrant Parents into Society in Helsinki through PDIA
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
We have released a new episode in our podcast series A Decade of Building State Capability. In this episode, BSC Director Salimah Samji interviews Joana Bento and Danielle Serebro, Programme Managers at Collaborative Africa Budget Reform Initiative (CABRI). They discuss the Building Public Finance Capabilities (BPFC) programme, developed by BSC in collaboration with CABRI in…Continue Reading New Podcast: Reflections on Applying PDIA to PFM in Africa
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
