In this episode of the South Africa Growth Through Inclusion series, we hear from Joanne Bate, Chief Operating Officer of South Africa's Industrial Development Corporation, a state owned enterprise tasked with building industries for the future in South Africa. Joanne discusses 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 and develop its economy ..read more

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 discusses the electricity crisis and strategic issues facing electricity and energy sectors in South Africa. Chris has been an expert and a key observer of energy markets for the past several decades and is a frequent commenter and writer on the electricity crisis in the country ..read more

In this episode of the South Africa Growth Though Inclusion Series, 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, discuss Operation Vulindela - a joint initiative of the presidency and the National Treasury. Operation Vulindela has been at work for about three years, focusing on many areas that the Growth Lab has found are most critical to growth and inclusion in South Africa: electricity, water, transport, digital communications and the visa regime ..read more

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, summarizes the key takeaways of the Growth Lab's two year research engagement in South Africa ..read more

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: Suman Bery, Vice Chairperson, National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog Moderators: Ricardo Hausmann, Director, Growth Lab, and Rafik Hariri Professor of the Practice of International Political Economy, H ..read more

Listen to the first episode in this Albania series: 'A Snapshot of the Growth Lab's Research Engagement in Albania'. Listen to the second episode in this Albania series: 'Iterations of a Growth Diagnostic: The Case Study of Albania'. Learn more about the Growth Lab's research engagement with the country of Albania ..read more

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 conducted Growth Diagnostic analyses to understand and test potential binding constraints to economic growth in Albania. After the initial Growth Diagnostic study in 2013, the team has since updated its tests and findings to reflect changes in the Albanian economy over time. In this podcast episode, Growth Lab research ..read more

Learn more about the Growth Lab's research engagement with the country of Albania ..read more

Read the Productive Ecosystems and the arrow of development paper, published in Nature Communications. Learn more about the authors Neave O'Clery, Muhammed Yildirim, and Ricardo Hausmann. Explore the Product Space via the Atlas of Economic Complexity ..read more

Read the working paper on Emerging Cities as Independent Engines of Growth: The Case of Buenos Aires: https://growthlab.cid.harvard.edu/publications/emerging-cities-independent-engines-growth-case-buenos-aires ..read more