From Surviving to Thriving: A New Vision for Global Development
The OPP's Annual Allama Iqbal Lecture (2025)
From Surviving to Thriving: A New Vision for Global Development
Delivered by: Professor Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Harvard University
Description:
Professor Khwaja will share ideas on a new vision for global development that moves from a traditional poverty based lens to one that seeks to maximize each individual’s innate potential. Together with colleagues at the Harvard Center for International Development, this reimagining seeks to build a thriving world for all and not simply a surviving world for some. By reframing development as a co-investment in people’s potential, the talk will explore how to unlock trillions in global GDP growth and foster more inclusive, sustainable societies.
About the speaker:
Asim I. Khwaja is the Faculty Director of Harvard’s Center for International Development and Professor at Harvard Kennedy School. He is a leading development economist and co-founder of CERP as well as several impact oriented global and country-based thinktanks, and an award-winning fintech startup. His research on finance, education, and political economy is widely published in top academic journals and has shaped policy debates in global development. LinkedIn Twitter
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