PRESENTATIONS

GROWTH ACADEMY MENA

Ufuk Akcigit

Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics, University of Chicago;
Co-Director, Growth Academy

]\”Dynamic Businesses and Talented People: Micro Foundations of Growth” 

Philippe Aghion

Professor of Economics, INSEAD; London School of Economics; and Collège de France

 

 

The Power of Creative Destruction” (Slides)

Altan Cakir

Professor, Istanbul Technical University

 

 

 

The Applied AI Toolkits for Future: Leveraging AI for Economical Developments

Indermit Gill

Chief Economist of the World Bank Group; Senior Vice President for Development Economics

 

Growing Enterpreneruial Clusters” (Slides) 

 

Somik Lall

Senior Advisor, Office of the Senior Vice President, World Bank
Director of the World Development Report 2024; Co-Director, Growth Academy

Energy, Emissions, and Creative Destruction” (Slides)

Norman Loayza

Director, Global Indicators Group, Development Economics, World Bank

 

 

 

Economic Growth: A Practitioner’s Perspective and Applications of the Long-Term Growth Model to Egypt and Syria 

Paul Makdissi

Professor, University of Ottawa

 

 

 

 

Creative Destruction and
Distance to Frontier: Implications for Emerging Economies
” (Slides) 

Javier Miranda

Professor, Friedrich Schiller University Jena;Head of the Center for Business and Productivity Dynamics, 
Halle Institute for Economic Research

Business Dynamism and Productivity” (Sides)

Roberta Gatti

Chief Economist for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), World Bank

 

Growth in MENA” 

GROWTH ACADEMY 2024

Panel Discussion

Featuring: Indermit Gil (Chief Economist of the World Bank) + Philippe Aghion (Collège de France, INSEAD, and the London School of Economics). Moderated by: Ufuk Akcigit (University of Chicago).

Creative Destruction and Middle Income Trap” (Video)

Somik V. Lall

Senior Adviser to the Chief Economist of the World Bank
The World Bank Group 

 

The Middle Income Trap (Video) & “Energy, Emissions, and Creative Destruction” (Slides)

Maria Marta Ferreyra

Senior Economist
The World Bank Group

 

 

Education for Innovation and Growth” (Video) 

Josh Lerner

Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking
Harvard Business School

 

Growing Enterpreneruial Clusters” (Slides) 

 

Indermit Gill

Chief Economist of the World Bank Group and Senior Vice President for Development Economics
The World Bank Group 

The Middle Income Trap” (Slides)

Philippe Aghion

Collège de France, INSEAD, and the London School of Economics

 

 

The Power of Creative Destruction (Slides)

Fabrizio Zilibotti

Tuntex Professor of International and Development Economics
Yale University

 

Creative Destruction and
Distance to Frontier: Implications for Emerging Economies
” (Slides) 

Chad Syverson

George C. Tiao Distinguished Service Professor
The University of Chicago 

 

Productivity and Reallocation” (Sides)

Norman Loayza

Director; Global Indicators Group; Development Economics
The World Bank Group

 

Economic Growth Through Productivity, Transformation and Resilience: A Practitioners’ Perspective (Video)  

 

Ekaterina Vostroknutova

Lead Economist, Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice
The World Bank Group

   

Policies to Promote Enterprise and Discipline Incumbents (Video)

Forhad Shilpi

Senior Economist; Development Economics
The World Bank Group 

 

Strengthening creation and weakening preservation: Social mobility and talent development in MICs” (Video)

William Maloney

Chief Economist; Latin America and Caribbean
The World Bank Group 

 

Solving Productivity Puzzles with Better Data ” (Video)

Tatjana Kleineberg speaking

Tatjana Kleinberg

Economist; Development Economics Vice-Presidency
The World Bank Group

 

Allocating Talent Efficiently to Unlock Economic Development” (Video)

Roberto N. Fattal Jaef

Senior Economist: Development Economics
The World Bank Group

 

Distortions and Firm Dynamics in Middle-Income Countries (Video)

Franziska Ohnsorge

Chief Economist, South Asia Region
The World Bank Group

 

 

Growth Challenges in South Asia” (Video)

Andrew Toole

Maria Vagliasindi

Lead Economist, Infrastructure Vice-Presidency
The World Bank Group

  

Challenges & Opportunities of the Energy Transition for Middle Income Countries” (Video)

Katherine Stapleton speaking<br />

Katherine Stapleton

Economist; Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice
The World Bank Group

 

Green Innovation, Creative Destruction and Growth (Video)

Katherine Stapleton speaking<br />

Michael Greenstone

The Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College
University of Chicago

The Economics of the Global Energy Challenge 

Katherine Stapleton speaking<br />

John List

Kenneth C. Griffin Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College
University of Chicago  

 

Green Innovation, Creative Destruction and Growth (Video)

Katherine Stapleton speaking<br />

James Heckman

The Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and the College
The University of Chicago

 

How the Welfare State Affects Inequality and Social Mobility: A Comparison of the U.S. and Denmark 

Katherine Stapleton speaking<br />

Michael Kremer

University Professor in Economics and the College and the Harris School of Public Policy
The University of Chicago

 

The Economics of the Global Energy Challenge 

Katherine Stapleton speaking<br />

James Evans

Max Palevsky Professor, Department of Sociology; Faculty Director, Masters in Computational Social Science Program
The University of Chicago 

The Paradox of Innovation Institutions: Designing Flexible Ecosystems that Accelerate Discovery, Invention, and Growth