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Emerging Cities as Independent Engines of Growth: The Case of Buenos Aires

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  • Ricardo Hausmann

    (Harvard's Growth Lab)

  • Douglas Barrios

    (Center for International Development at Harvard University)

  • Daniela Muhaj
  • Sehar Noor
  • Carolina Ines Pan

    (Center for International Development at Harvard University)

  • Miguel Angel Santos

    (Center for International Development at Harvard University)

  • Jorge Tapia

    (Center for International Development at Harvard University)

  • Bruno Zuccolo

Abstract

What does it take for a sub-national unit to become an autonomous engine of growth? This issue is particularly relevant to large cities, as they tend to display larger and more complex know-how agglomerations and may have access to a broader set of policy tools. To approximate an answer to this question, specific to the case of Buenos Aires, Harvard’s Growth Lab engaged in a research project from December 2018 to June 2019, collaborating with the Center for Evidence-based Evaluation of Policies (CEPE) of Universidad Torcuato di Tella, and the Development Unit of the Secretary of Finance of the City of Buenos Aires. Together, we have developed research agenda that seeks to provide inputs for a policy plan aimed at decoupling Buenos Aires’s growth trajectory from the rest of Argentina’s.

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  • Ricardo Hausmann & Douglas Barrios & Daniela Muhaj & Sehar Noor & Carolina Ines Pan & Miguel Angel Santos & Jorge Tapia & Bruno Zuccolo, 2020. "Emerging Cities as Independent Engines of Growth: The Case of Buenos Aires," Growth Lab Working Papers 164, Harvard's Growth Lab.
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