Youth Unemployment in Kenya: My Journey as a Leading Economic Growth Student
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 […]
Economic complexity
What if it’s not broken yet?
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 […]
A Hands-on Deconstruction of Youth Unemployment in Kenya
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 […]
Promoting Equitable Investment and Job Generation in Fort Worth, Texas
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 […]
Promoting agricultural sector products to diversify the economy in Mongolia
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 […]
Tackling high rates of poverty and low growth among MSMEs in Nigeria
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 […]
Reflecting on the Growth of Agriculture in Albania
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 […]
Can PDIA approaches help to enhance the development of Institutional Strategies in Multilateral Organizations
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 […]
Leading Economic Growth in Kazakhstan
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 […]
Learning to Crawl: Can a Health Financing Reform Unshackle Ukraine’s Growth Potential?
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 […]