Harvard Center for International Development

CID Research Fellow Ermal Frasheri interviews Dr. Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations at the European Commission on the scope of EU’s Neighbourhood policies and about the challenges and opportunities surrounding European integration.

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About the Speaker: Johannes Hahn has been serving as the Member of the European Commission in charge of Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations since November 2014. He is responsible for the Union's relations with the six Western Balkans countries and Turkey, as well as relations with Europe's Eastern and Southern neighbours, from Ukraine to the South Caucasus and from Syria to the Maghreb. From 2010 to 2014, Dr. Hahn was the Member of the European Commission in charge of Regional Policy. Before joining the Commission, he served as Austria's Federal Minister for Science and Research from 2007-2010, as a Member of the Vienna State Government from 2003 to 2007 and a Member of the Vienna State Parliament from 1996 to 2003. Since the mid-1980ies, he held various senior management functions in different sectors of the Austrian economy, including as board member and CEO of Novomatic AG from 1996-2003. Johannes Hahn holds a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Vienna.

Interview recorded on September 21st, 2017

CID Research Fellow Tim O'Brien interviews Carolina Zambrano-Barragán, Climate change and urban sustainability expert from Quito, Ecuador.

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In this interview, Carolina explains why climate change is seen as a "super wicked problem", describes the difference between climate change mitigation and adaptation and shares key insights from her personal experience working on climate change on both national and local levels in Ecuador.

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Recorded on September 8th, 2017.

CID Communications Manager, Chuck McKenney interview CID Research Fellow Tim Cheston and Sebastian Bustos on the Center's recently published 2025 Global Growth Projections, based on the latest 2015 global trade data.

According to the research, the economic pole of global growth has taken a marked shift over the past few years from China to neighboring India, where it is likely to stay over the coming decade.

Tim and Sebastian discuss this and other insights that rise from the 2025 Projections and explain the methodology behind the data.

For more information go to: http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/rankings/growth-predictions/

Interview recorded on June 22nd, 2017

CID Research Fellow Tim McNaught interviews Lant Pritchett, Professor of the Practice of International Development at Harvard Kennedy School on the often overlooked gains of migration to both rich and middle income countries.

Interview recorded on April 28th, 2017.

About the Speaker: About the Speaker: Lant Pritchett is Professor of the Practice of International Development at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (as of July 1, 2007). In addition he is a Senior Fellow of the Center for Global Development. He was co-editor of the Journal of Development Economics and worked as a consultant to Google.org. He graduated from Brigham Young University in 1983 with a B.S. in Economics and in 1988 from MIT with a PhD in Economics. After finishing at MIT Lant joined the World Bank, where he held a number of positions in the Bank's research complex between 1988 and 1998, including as an adviser to Lawrence Summers when he was Vice President from 1991-1993. From 1998 to 2000 he worked in Indonesia.

From 2000 to 2004 Lant was on leave from the World Bank as a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 2004 he returned to the World Bank and moved to India where he worked until May 2007. Lant has been part of the team producing many World Bank reports, including: World Development Report 1994: Infrastructure for Development, Assessing Aid: What Works, What Doesn't and Why (1998), Better Health Systems for Indias Poor: Findings, Analysis, and Options (2003),World Development Report 2004: Making Services Work for the Poor, Economic Growth in the 1990s: Learning from a Decade of Reforms (2005).

In addition he has authored (alone or with one of his 22 co-authors) over 50 papers published in refereed journals, chapters in books, or as articles, at least some of which are sometimes cited. In addition to economics journals his work has appeared in specialized journals in demography, education, and health. In 2006 he published his first solo authored book, Let Their People Come, and in 2013 his second, The Rebirth of Education: Schooling Ain’t Learning.

CID Student Ambassador Yuxiang Luo interviews Parag Khanna, Geo-Strategist, best selling author & Senior Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore on his book "Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization". In this book Khanna guides us through the emerging global network civilization in which mega-cities compete over connectivity more than borders.

Interview recorded on March 31, 2017.

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This is the full audio from our fourth Security and Development Seminar Series. This session explores the causes, correlates, and consequences of interpersonal violence in Latin America, with an emphasis on the Northern Triangle region, which includes El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.

Audio recorded on April 27th, 2017.

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Speakers:

•Nathalie Alvarado-Renner, Citizen Security Lead Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank (IDB),

•Daniel Ortega, Director of impact evaluation and policy learning, CAF

•Thomas Abt, Innovation in Citizen Security Project, Center for International Development at Harvard University

•Marcela Escobari, visiting Fellow at Brookings Institution and former Assistant Administrator, USAID Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean

CID has launched its new Security and Development Seminar Series and over the 2016-2017 academic year, it will host four high-level discussions exploring the intersections between security, growth, and development in Latin America.

CID Research Assistant interviews the speakers from the 4th session, which explored the causes, correlates, and consequences of violence in Latin America.

Speakers:

• Nathalie Alvarado-Renner, Citizen Security Lead Specialist at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)

• Daniel Ortega, Director of impact evaluation and policy learning at CAF

• Marcela Escobari, visiting Fellow at Brookings' Global Economy and Development program and former Assistant Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean.

The session was moderated by Thomas Abt, Senior Research Fellow and Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy with CID.

The interview took place on April 27th, 2017.

More information about the event and the speakers can be found at: growthlab.cid.harvard.edu/security-and…minar-series

CID Outreach Coordinator Camila Lobo interviews Fabio Kanczuk, Secretary of Economic Policy at the Brazilian Ministry of Finance and Full Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of São Paulo on the roots of Brazil's economic crisis, the measures being adopted and the current and future challenges for Brazilian policy-makers.

Interview recorded on April 14th, 2017.

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About the Speaker: Fabio Kanczuk is Electronic Engineer “Magna cum Laude” from ITA (Aeronautic Technological Institute), holds a Ph.D. in Economics from UCLA and a post-doctorate from Harvard University. His academic work was published in international journals as Journal of International Economics, Review of Economic Dynamics, Journal of Development Economics and Review of International Economics. In the private sector, he was a consultant during the last twenty years, and was a Partner at Rosenberg Consultoria, MCM Consultores, Reliance Gestão de Ativos, e Brazil Warrant Gestão de Investimentos. He is currently Full Professor of Macroeconomics at the University of São Paulo, and the Secretary of Economic Policy at the Brazilian Ministry of Finance.

CID Student Ambassador Mayra Salazar Rivera interviews Gerardo Esquivel, Professor of Economics at El Colegio de Mexico, and Executive Coordinator of Research at the Instituto Belisario Domínguez of the Mexican Senate, on Mexico's trade and migration policies in the context of the Trump administration.

Interview recorded on March 24th, 2017.

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About the Speaker: Gerardo Esquivel received his Ph.D. in economics from Harvard in 1997. He also holds a B.A. in economics from the National University Autonomous of Mexico (UNAM, 1989) and an M.A. in economics from El Colegio de Mexico (1991). He is currently a Professor of Economics at El Colegio de Mexico, where he has been since 1998, and is the Executive Coordinator of Research at the Instituto Belisario Domínguez of the Mexican Senate. Previously, he worked as a Senior Macroeconomics Researcher at the Harvard Institute for International Development (HIID). Mr. Esquivel has also been a consultant for the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, the World Bank, the United Nations Development Program and the Central Bank in Mexico. In 2011, Mr. Esquivel was Tinker Visiting Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy in the University of Chicago. Dr. Esquivel has written extensively on several economic issues and has received numerous distinctions for his research.

This is the full audio from our third Security and Development Seminar Series. This session explores the causal relationships between inequality, crime, and violence, understanding the former as a both cause and effect of the latter.

Audio recorded on February 16th, 2017.

For more information go to: bit.ly/2eyCcQU

Speakers:

1. João M P De Mello - Lemann Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies

2. Rodrigo R. Soares - Lemann Professor of Brazilian Public Policy and International and Public Affairs

3. Filipe R. Campante - Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

4. Emily Owens - Associate Professor in the Department of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine