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Official X of the Growth Academy—global workshops and seminars empowering policymakers and researchers to solve economic challenges with data-driven solutions.
Joined July 2024
Congrats to #NobelPrize winner Joel Mokyr (@NUEconomics)! 🎉 Your lessons from history inspire our journey to smarter growth. Find Joel Mokyr’s #GrowthAcademy25 presentation slides here:
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So proud of new #NobelPrize laureate @PAghion! 🎉 Your ideas encourage us all to think boldly about innovation and progress. Find Philippe Aghion's #GrowthAcademy25 presentation slides here:
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LIVE at #GrowthAcademy25: "The Marshall Plan: Then and Now". What happened during postwar Europe’s recovery—and what lessons can we draw for growth today? Joel Mokyr (@NUEconomics) highlights strategies, policies, and attitudes that shaped a turning point in #EconomicHistory.
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LIVE at #GrowthAcademy25: “Can AI Transform Public Service Delivery?” Michael Kremer (@DILatUChicago) walks through the possibilities of developing more efficient public services worldwide. #PublicServiceAI
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LIVE at #GrowthAcademy25: Innovation needs venture capital—but policy is the wild card. @realjoshlerner (@HarvardHBS) explains why fueling startup ecosystems takes smart investment and even smarter governance in "Growing Entrepreneurial Clusters and Innovation". #GlobalVenture
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LIVE at #GrowthAcademy25: @profjamesevans (@UChicagoSSD) explores how countries are advancing in the AI landscape, highlighting their diverse strategies and contributions to global AI leadership. #AIleadership
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LIVE at #GrowthAcademy25: Chang-Tai Hsieh (@ChicagoBooth) compares the behavior of top conglomerates across various countries his lecture "Scale vs. Scope". #GlobalBusiness
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LIVE at #GrowthAcademy25: @ufukakcigit (@UChi_Economics) digs deep into smart economic growth concepts from the @WorldBank_IEG's 2024 World Development Report, The Middle-Income Trap. #Ideas4Impact
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LIVE at #GrowthAcademy25, Day 4: @somikcities (@WorldBank_IEG) builds on yesterday's energy crisis session with "Energy, Emissions, and Creative Destruction", outlining the need for global energy efficiency and cooperation. #EnergyEfficiency
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LIVE at #GrowthAcademy25: Prof. Michael Greenstone (@UChiEnergy) discusses "The Economics of the Global Energy Challenge," emphasizing how nations must balance reliable energy, clean air, and climate goals—and the importance of pricing energy’s true costs. #EnergyEcon
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LIVE at #GrowthAcademy25: @BrentNeiman (@ChicagoBooth) unpacks "Global Capital Allocation" and the forces that define “who owns what” around the world. #GlobalCapital
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LIVE at #GrowthAcademy25: @Susan_Athey (@StanfordGSB) explores AI's applications for economies as well as timely policy responses to AI's labor market disruptions in her lecture “AI and The New Economy”. #AIPolicy
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LIVE at #GrowthAcademy25: @PennyG_Yale introduces “The Global Gender Distortions Index”—showing how the GGDI helps pinpoint and measure hidden barriers for understanding gender gaps in labor markets. @YaleEGC
#GenderEconomics
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#GrowthAcademy25 Day 2 ended with @Furkan_Kilic (@UChi_Economics), Christian Posso (@cpossosu) (@BancoRepublica) and Seyit Mümin Cilasun (@TED_Uni) sharing insights from a research collaboration that began at the inaugural Growth Academy in 2024. #EconomicResearch
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LIVE at #GrowthAcademy25: @heckmanequation (@UChi_Economics) presents on global fertility trends. Key insights on family, education, and economic opportunity. #HumanDevelopment
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HE @BAlkhorayef reflects on his visit to @UChicago and the #GrowthAcademy25 (original post in Arabic):
سعدت بزيارة جامعة Chicago ولقاء عميد كلية السياسات العامة، والمشاركة في جلسة حوارية بحضور نخبة من صنّاع السياسات والباحثين، تحدثت فيها عن التحول الاقتصادي الكبير الذي تشهده المملكة في ظل #رؤية_السعودية_2030، وما تزخر به من ثروات طبيعية، وكفاءات وطنية، وبنية تحتية متقدمة.
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LIVE at #GrowthAcademy25: Prof. Fabrizio Zilibotti (@YaleEconomics) delves into “Creative Destruction and Distance to Frontier: Implications for Emerging Economies"—exploring how firm dynamics shapes economic growth in developing nations. #DevelopingEconomies
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LIVE at #GrowthAcademy25: @UncertainLars (@UChi_Economics) examines “Uncertainty, Social Valuation, and Climate Change Policy”—a deep dive into how different types of uncertainty shape the sense of urgency and direction of climate action. #Uncertainty
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#GrowthAcademy25: Day 1 ended with a fireside discussion with HE @BAlkhorayef, Minister of Industry & Mineral Resources of Saudi Arabia, @ufukakcigit of @UChi_Economics and @SomikCities of @worldbank. Key insights on industry and regional development. Follow for Day 2 updates!
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