(Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s woeful economic performance boils down to one key factor — a lack of electricity, according to Harvard University’s Professor Ricardo Hausmann. About two decades of power ...

Camilla Lund Andersen profiles Ricardo Hausmann, whose lifelong quest has been to uncover the forces that drive economic development In nearly 40 years of navigating government, academia, and ...

Why do some countries become rich while others stagnate? And can you predict which countries become wealthy in advance of them actually increasing their collective GDP? The answer may lie in the ...

One of Venezuela’s most prominent intellectuals, Harvard economics professor Ricardo Hausmann, has just published an article that is raising eyebrows across the hemisphere: He is calling for a ...

This week in Say More, PS talks with Ricardo Hausmann, a professor at Harvard Kennedy School and Director of the Harvard Growth Lab. Ricardo Hausmann: Restrictions on immigration impede growth by ...

Harvard University economist Ricardo Hausmann is calling on JPMorgan Chase & Co. to remove Venezuela from its bond indexes so that investors whose portfolios track the gauges aren’t compelled to buy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Adds context) March 4 (Reuters) - Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido named Harvard University economist Ricardo Hausmann as ...

The misguided policies of President Nicolas Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chavez, along with falling oil prices, have destabilized Venezuela’s economy and triggered shortages of vital supplies, ...

Ricardo Hausmann is a professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and the director of Harvard's Growth Lab. We've talked to him multiple times in the past about the necessary preconditions for economies ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ricardo Hausmann is announcing plans to quit his job as governor of the Inter-American Development Bank, a position he took in March as representative of Venezuela designated by ...