Guest blog by Albert Waudo What can I say? This has been one of most interesting trainings I have attended in a while. Right from the first class where we were asked to think about crossing a country in 2015 with a well-drawn map versus crossing the same country in 1804 when there was no…Continue Reading Youth Unemployment in Kenya: My Journey as a Leading Economic Growth Student
Guest blog by Carmel Quin Western Australia is a prosperous State in a diverse and wealthy country. Our growth challenge is not one that we experience today – but one that looms large on the horizon. Much of the State’s wealth comes from the export of non-renewable commodities – natural resources that will not last forever….Continue Reading What if it’s not broken yet?
Guest blog by Moses Sitati When I received a work email asking for my interest in taking the Leading Economic Growth course, I quickly had a look and was not entirely sure that it was the one for me. I did some quick mental calculation to check whether it made sense for me to devote scarce…Continue Reading A Hands-on Deconstruction of Youth Unemployment in Kenya
Guest blog by Robert Sturns When I began the Leading Economic Growth program, my goal was really driven by a desire to understand how we could have a more equitable distribution of investment and jobs throughout my community. As we really begin to dig into issues of economic complexity, I discovered that our issue was much…Continue Reading Promoting Equitable Investment and Job Generation in Fort Worth, Texas
Guest blog by Batjargal Khandjav The Leading Economic Growth Program has been an absolutely inspiring intellectual journey for me during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown. It was a unique opportunity to reflect on key principles of economic growth while using toolset to better understand the unfolding of policy choices and drivers of economic growth for my own country….Continue Reading Promoting agricultural sector products to diversify the economy in Mongolia
Guest blog by Member Feese My key learning from the Leading Economic Growth course is how to effectively define a challenge / problem using the 5-whys technique and not use the solution to define the problem. For instance, the definition of my first economic problem was lack of transportation infrastructure in Nigeria, however, I discovered that…Continue Reading Tackling high rates of poverty and low growth among MSMEs in Nigeria
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 get that chance often). The world class academic excellence was a major driving force that triggered my intellectual curiosity and led me to deepen the involvement with course material and do further research, whereas the way the on-‐line learning platform was designed made the course a delightful experience that I was looking forward to, every time I switched back from my day job….Continue Reading Reflecting on the Growth of Agriculture in Albania
Guest blog written by Francisco Castro-y-Ortíz I work for a multilateral development organization—the Inter-American Development Bank—and am a citizen from a Latin-American Middle-Income Country (MIC). Because of this background, the main economic problem I am most concerned about relates to my own country—Mexico—and the Latin-American and Caribbean region (LAC) as a whole. It is about…Continue Reading Can PDIA approaches help to enhance the development of Institutional Strategies in Multilateral Organizations
Guest blog written by Baur Bektemirov There is an old cliché that crisis is an opportunity. In my case, the Great Lockdown has certainly become an opportunity to learn and even re-think my work as the Chief Economist for a government organization, which just recently was tasked with an expanded role to help the government…Continue Reading Leading Economic Growth in Kazakhstan
Guest blog written by Dzhygyr Yuriy Through past two decades, Ukraine has been steadily descending the Atlas economic complexity ranking list, going down from #30 in 2001 to #50 in 2016. At the lowest border of the second highest quintile, it is a relatively advanced economy and was assessed by Ricardo Hausmann’s international complexity simulations…Continue Reading Learning to Crawl: Can a Health Financing Reform Unshackle Ukraine’s Growth Potential?
