Growth Week 2012

<span "font-size: 110%; font-family: calibri,arial,sans,sans-serif; color: #000000; text-align: left;" data-sheets-value="[null,2,"Growth Week 2012 has concluded at the LSE campus, with the final day of sessions including discussions on our newest partner country, South Sudan, and engagement country, Myanmar.\n\nDaily summaries for each of the three days of Growth Week 2012 are available below, including each of the plenary sessions. Also available are presentations and audio podcasts for the vast majority of sessions. \n\nYou can see all the photos from Growth Week 2012 on our Flickr page.\n\nThe public lectures were very well attended, with Paul Collier (Oxford; IGC), Tony Venables (Oxford; IGC) and Ben Akabueze (Commissioner for Economic Planning & Budget, Lagos State, Nigeria) sharing their thoughts on the role of cities in development on Monday. You can read the summary of the lecture or listen to the audio below.\n\nThe cross-country panel on 'From Ideas into Policy: Policy Challenges for Growth in Africa and South Asia' chaired by Asim Khwaja on Tuesday evening saw an interesting discussion on how Africa and Asia can learn from each other to achieve growth. A summary of the event and a podcast are also available below.\n\nThe event was also live-tweeted using the hashtag #GrowthWeek on our Twitter page.\n\nFinally, we asked our delegates what they thought the big idea in growth was and their answers are linked in the video below."]" data-sheets-userformat="[null,null,14784,null,null,null,null,null,null,0,0,0,null,null,[null,2,0],"calibri,arial,sans,sans-serif",11]">Growth Week 2012 has concluded at the LSE campus, with the final day of sessions including discussions on our newest partner country, South Sudan, and engagement country, Myanmar.

Daily summaries for each of the three days of Growth Week 2012 are available below, including each of the plenary sessions. Also available are presentations and audio podcasts for the vast majority of sessions.

You can see all the photos from Growth Week 2012 on our Flickr page.

The public lectures were very well attended, with Paul Collier (Oxford; IGC), Tony Venables (Oxford; IGC) and Ben Akabueze (Commissioner for Economic Planning & Budget, Lagos State, Nigeria) sharing their thoughts on the role of cities in development on Monday. You can read the summary of the lecture or listen to the audio below.

The cross-country panel on 'From Ideas into Policy: Policy Challenges for Growth in Africa and South Asia' chaired by Asim Khwaja on Tuesday evening saw an interesting discussion on how Africa and Asia can learn from each other to achieve growth. A summary of the event and a podcast are also available below.

The event was also live-tweeted using the hashtag #GrowthWeek on our Twitter page.

Finally, we asked our delegates what they thought the big idea in growth was and their answers are linked in the video below.