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La diversificación de la producción, una clave para crear riqueza

June 20, 2015

Tim Cheston, Growth Lab research in Pagina Siete

"Bolivia ha tenido un crecimiento impresionante en los últimos años, han crecido las importaciones, ha crecido el consumo, 5% anual son los mejores números en Latinoamérica, pero la mayoría de ese crecimiento ha venido por el crecimiento en el gas y los minerales. Eso crea un crecimiento poco sostenible si no hay continuas inversiones en exploración”, afirma la directora del Centro para el Desarrollo Internacional de la Universidad de Harvard, Marcela Escobari.

El CID (la sigla en inglés) se ocupa, entre...

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US Embassy announces three-year initiative

August 24, 2019

Growth Lab research project in The Reporter

The United States Embassy in Addis Ababa is set to help kick start a three year initiative with Harvard University’s Center for International Development to help identify opportunities for an economic growth and help identify its challenges.

Michael Raynor, US Ambassador to Ethiopia and a champion of reforms initiated by the government of Abiy Ahmed (PhD), calling it, “Ambitious and essential economic reforms,” announced the new initiative that is expected to be ledby Ricardo Haussmann (PhD), who was recently in...

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Hausmann: Liberalising migrant labour policies key to propel growth

May 18, 2018

Ricardo Hausmann, Growth Lab Sri Lanka project in Sunday Observer

Sri Lanka has the potential to accelerate its economic growth by creating access to know-how through liberalised immigration policies, opines a renowned expert on development economics.

Addressing a recent lecture on the topic of ‘Accessing know-how for development’, Director of Centre for International Development (CID) at Harvard University, Prof. Ricardo Hausmann says the low addition of new products to the island’s export basket in the last two decades was primarily due to the barriers in...

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EDB collaborating with Harvard Center for International Development to boost exports

January 17, 2017

DailyFT

The Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB) is collaborating with the Harvard Center for International Development on a project to identify and rapidly catalyse new or emerging export sectors and enlarge Sri Lanka’s export basket. 

The initiative is being held under the guidance of the Ministry of Development Strategies and International Trade, the Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB) and the Board of Investment (BOI).  

On the request of State Minister of International Trade, Sujeewa Senasinghe, last week a meeting with Prof....

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Brasil cai em rankings mundiais de corrupção,democracia, violência e produtividade

October 4, 2021

Tim Cheston, Atlas of Economic Complexity in Folha de S.Paulo (English)

Outro ranking no qual o Brasil despencou foi o de complexidade econômica,calculado pela Universidade Harvard. O país passou da 26ª para a 53ª posição,entre 2000 e 2019 —ano mais recente para o qual há dados.

Calculado pelo Laboratório de Crescimento da instituição, o índice parte da ideiade que o nível de conhecimento em uma sociedade...

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China Is Exporting More Sophisticated Products Despite Trade War

August 3, 2021

Tim Cheston, Atlas ECI Rankings in Bloomberg News

The technological level of China’s exports increased through the trade war with the U.S., according to a new ranking, which predicts the Chinese economy will grow faster than India’s over the next decade.

China ranked 16th globally when judged by the complexity of its exports in 2019, moving up three places ahead of countries including Ireland since the onset of the trade war in 2018, according to a new study by Harvard University’s Growth Lab.

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