Growth Lab Podcast Series

Dec 15 2023 37 ep. 28 mins 1.1k
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Led by Ricardo Hausmann, the Growth Lab at Harvard Kennedy School pushes the frontiers of economic growth and development policy research, collaborates with policymakers to design actions, and shares insights through teaching, tools and publications, in the pursuit of inclusive prosperity.

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Ep5 Green Growth with Joanne Bate

Dec 15 2023 43 mins  
In this episode of the South Africa Growth Through Inclusion series, Ketan Ahuja, Research Fellow at the Growth Lab, joins Joanne Bate, Chief Operating Officer of South Africa's Industrial Development Corporation, for a discussion on how South Africa can build new engines of economic growth in green industries and how it can use its unique capabilities to help the world decarbonize

Ep4 Urban Planning and Spatial Exclusion with Carel Kleynhans, Divercity

Dec 15 2023 32 mins  
In this episode of the South Africa Growth Through Inclusion series, Alexia Lochmann, Research Fellow at the Growth Lab, speaks with Carel Kleynhans, CEO of Divercity Property Group. Divercity is South Africa's leading investor in well located affordable housing precincts. Carel worked closely with the Growth Lab during its two year research engagement in South Africa and has been

Ep3 Electricity Crisis with Chris Yelland

Dec 15 2023 51 mins  
In this episode of the South Africa Growth Through Inclusion series, Chris Yelland, a Johannesburg based energy analyst, engineer and the founder and Managing Director of e-Business Intelligence talks with former Growth Lab Research Manager Kishan Shah. The conversation focuses on the electricity crisis and strategic issues facing electricity and energy sectors in South Africa. Chr

Ep2 Operation Vulindlela with Nomvuyo Guma & Saul Musker

Dec 15 2023 42 mins  
In this episode of the South Africa Growth Though Inclusion series, Tim O'Brien, Senior Manager of Applied Research at the Growth Lab, speaks with Nomvuyo Guma, Chief Director of Microeconomic Policy at the National Treasury and Saul Musker, Director of Strategy and Delivery Support of the private office of the President of South Africa. The discussion centers on Operation Vulindle

Ep1 (Intro) Growth Through Inclusion In South Africa with Ricardo Hausmann

Dec 15 2023 31 mins  
In this introductory episode, Ricardo Hausmann, the founder and Director of Harvard's Growth Lab and the Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at Harvard Kennedy School and Andres Fortunato, Research Fellow at the Growth Lab, discuss the key takeaways of their two year research engagement in South Africa.

Development Talk: Investment in the Energy Transition / Global and Domestic Dimensions

Jul 20 2023 55 mins  
In this Development Talk seminar, Suman Bery discusses his optimism for India's future growth, whether the energy transition complicates India's growth trajectory, the potential sources of capital for India's energy transition, how to jump start private sector investment in green energy, and how India's engagement with industrial policy should look like moving forward. Speaker: Su

Economic Policymaking in a World of Deep Disorder

Apr 28 2023 33 mins  
Speaker: Mamo Mihretu, Governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia, HKS MPA 2009 The Growth Lab worked closely with Mr. Mihretu during our three-year policy engagement in Ethiopia, a country that has established a fragile peace after a devastating civil war. We have studied macroeconomic challenges that the government is trying to address to enable a sustainable post-war recovery.

Order Without Design / Rethinking the Role of Government in City Development

Mar 21 2023 53 mins  
Speaker: Alain Bertaud, Senior Fellow, New York University's Marron Institute of Urban Management; Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Mercatus Center, George Mason University. Moderator: Diane E. Davis, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Harvard's Graduate School of Design. The discussion revolves around Alain's recent book, "Order without Design: How Ma

Gambling on Development / The Role of Local Elites in a Growth-Based Future

Jan 18 2023 45 mins  
The Growth Lab's Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy. Speaker: Stefan Dercon, Professor of Economic Policy, Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government Mode

Building Capability to Design and Implement Growth Reforms: The Case Study of Albania

Aug 05 2021 20 mins  
The Growth Lab has been engaged in an applied research project with the country of Albania since 2013. In this time, we have conducted research on numerous, diverse workstreams related to stimulating economic growth in the country. During this research engagement, our team worked directly with policymakers to help build their capabilities so they can better design and implement p