Laura Romero is a first-year MPA/ID student at Harvard Kennedy School. She was accepted into the Growth Lab's 2022 Fall RA Program and contributed to our Initiative on Agriculture where the work included developing a framework to determine products that are suitable for smallholder farming agriculture and its integration into markets.... Read more about Student Stories: Collecting Evidence to Help Smallholder Farmers Around the World

By Yomna Mohei Eldin

Kazakhstan is one of the least densely populated countries in the world. It has an area roughly equal to that of all of Western Europe and a population of 19 million – around that of the Netherlands. Kazakhstan became Independent in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union and shortly thereafter experienced an oil boom. The global commodity super-cycle ended in 2014, and oil prices fell. Kazakhstan’s unique socioeconomic history and its vulnerability to commodity price shocks...

By Ryosuke Shimizu

This summer, as a Growth Lab intern, I conducted research on decarbonization in the United States. To gain a better understanding of this topic, I worked with an economist at the Center for Business and Economic Analysis (CBEA) at the University of Wyoming in Laramie. CBEA's primary task is to work with other departments and state agencies to conduct economic assessments of industrial projects in Wyoming. Most...