Caring for a Community of Practice
written by Anisha Poobalan Communities of Practice come in all shapes and sizes. But no matter how large, how diverse, how global, as the name suggests the key word here […]
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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 […]
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 […]
Better school improvement through Problem-Driven Iterative Adaptation
Guest blog written by Harry Fletcher-Wood What do these have in common? All three ran late and overbudget: Crossrail is 3 years late and £2 billion overbudget; the Edinburgh Tram […]
Learning about Economic Growth in Angola
Guest blog written by Noelma Viegas D’Abreu I: Key Ideas and Learning LEG helped me demystify something very important: Economy is not only a science of accounting, finance, taxes and […]
To Improve Women’s Lives, Start by Improving Girls’ Education
written by Marla Spivack By ensuring that all girls are receiving inclusive, effective instruction in well-functioning education systems, we can grow closer to achieving SDG 4’s promise of universal literacy […]
Top 10 Things I learned from Leading Economic Growth
Guest blog written by Robert Trewartha To be honest, I was “volun-told” into this course by the Mayor. I had joined her for the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative in 2019-20 […]
From Struggle to Deep Learning, then Action!
Guest blog written by Kojun Nakashima 2020 will surely be the unforgettable year for all the people around the globe. Everything has been required to be changed. Everybody has been […]
Seeking the Next Gear for a Country with 30 Years of Continuous Growth
Guest blog written by Jacek Kotrasinski Being from Poland, a country that recorded the unprecedented last 30 years of continuous economic growth, I came to the LEG Program to find […]
Public policy during a crisis: 3 Lessons learned from Ecuador’s earthquake
Guest blog written by Sandra Naranjo Bautista Last October, I was a guest lecturer at Harvard’s Executive Education Program, Budgeting Through Crisis. I talked about my experience as a minister during Ecuador’s […]