Bringing Development Strategy Back In: New Insights from China, South Korea, and Singapore

Harvard Center for International Development

This podcast was originally recorded on September 23, 2022, for the CID Speaker Series featuring Karim Sarhan, Research Fellow at Harvard's Center for International Development and Partner at Sharkawy & Sarhan Law Firm. Karim continued the conversation with CID Student Ambassador, Kevin Chen, after an appearance at the CID Speaker Series event. Karim presents his latest paper with CID, "Bringing Development Strategy Back In: New Insights from China, South Korea, and Singapore." The paper attempts to answer the following question: can countries’ economic success be attributed, even partially, to a well-designed and effectively implemented development strategy? It presents a framework for a “Grand Strategy of Development” as a new conceptual lens for understanding the economic transformation that happened in China, South Korea and Singapore​.