The editions
Five academies. Four continents. One program.
Every edition of the Growth Academy adapts the same intellectual core to a different region's binding constraints. Browse the editions to date.
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Jul 29 – Aug 9, 2024
The first Growth Academy.
The World Bank has released its flagship publication, the World Development Report, each year since 1978. With the publication of the 2024 report, the authors moved in a new direction: they created a transformative summe…
28 participants
17 countries
10+ speakers
Pretoria · 2026
Pretoria
May 21, 2026
Indermit Gill. Chief Economist, World Bank Group.
participants · 1 countries
Recap →Tokyo · 2025
Tokyo
Dec 15 – 16, 2025
Forty+ economists from across Asia. World Bank IED Tokyo Center, JADE, ADBI, UNU.
42 participants · 10 countries
Recap →Chicago Summer · 2025
UChicago
Jul 21 – 25, 2025
H.E. Bandar Ibrahim Alkhorayef. Saudi Arabia's Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources.
32 participants · 9 countries
Recap →Bucharest · 2025
Bucharest
May 22 – 24, 2025
Ivailo Izvorski. Chief Economist, World Bank ECA.
22 participants · 7 countries
Recap →Cairo · 2025
Cairo
Apr 30 – May 2, 2025
H.E. Dr. Rania Al-Mashat. Egypt's Minister of Planning, Economic Development, and International Cooperation.
20 participants · 5 countries
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