Director Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy, HKS
Ricardo Hausmann is the founder and Director of Harvard’s Growth Lab and the Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy at...
Sebastian Peña Laris is a second-year MPA/ID student at Harvard Kennedy School. He received a B.A. in Economics and Law from Instituto Tecnologico de... Read more about Sebastian Peña
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Between 1999 and 2009, Jordan experienced a huge growth acceleration, tripling its exports and increasing income per capita by 38%. Since then, its economy has been thrown off balance, impacted by a number of external shocks that include the global financial crisis, the Arab Spring, and the Syrian Civil War. For the past year, The Growth Lab has been working in the country with the goal of understanding what is hindering income growth per capita and drafting a roadmap to help Jordan get back on a sustainable growth track. On today's Growth Lab podcast, Director of Applied Research,...
In this Growth Lab podcast, we are joined by Miguel Angel Santos, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School of Government and Director of Applied Research at the Growth Lab, as well as Tim O’Brien, Senior Manager of Applied Research at the Growth Lab. Miguel...
Johanna Ramos is a former Growth Lab Fellow at the Center for International Development at Harvard University. Before joining CID, she worked at the Inter-... Read more about Johanna Ramos
Women in Jordan are excluded from labor market opportunities at among the highest rates in the world. Previous efforts to explain this outcome have focused on specific, isolated aspects of the problem and have not exploited available datasets to test across causal explanations. In this podcast, Emma Cameron, student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, interviews Growth Lab Research Fellow Semiray Kasoolu. Semiray discusses Growth Lab...
Patricio joined the Center for International Development's Growth Lab in 2019. He has worked in Applied Research projects in Albania, Ethiopia, Honduras,...