{"491681":{"#nid":"491681","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Dr. Vivek Ghosal Presents in Kenya","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Ghosal was invited to be a panelist and presenter at the \u0022Workshop on the Relevance of Competition \u0026amp; Regulatory Reforms in Pursuing Sustainable Development Goals in Developing Countries.\u0022 The event was held in Nairobi, in December 2015 and was sponsored by the World Bank, OECD, G-77 Secretariat, UKaid, Deutsche Zusammenarbeit and CUTS International. The policy-oriented paper Professor Ghosal presented was on \u0022Promoting Innovation to Foster Competition, Economic Development and Growth in Developing Economies.\u0022 The paper noted ways in which developing countries could focus on policies to increase innovation domestically, and reallocate resources to encourage entrepreneurship and innovative business startups. For more information on his research, please contact \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/econ.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/10b08939-7db5-53ec-870c-f07fe0ea9d2a\u0022\u003EDr. Ghosal\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Professor Ghosal was invited to present at the \u0022Workshop on the Relevance of Competition \u0026 Regulatory Reforms in Pursuing http:\/\/economics.fiu.edu\/iefs\/"}],"uid":"27365","created_gmt":"2016-01-27 14:29:25","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:31","author":"Jade Hill","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-01-27T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-01-27T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"242021":{"id":"242021","type":"image","title":"Vivek Ghosal","body":null,"created":"1449243688","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 15:41:28","changed":"1475894916","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:48:36","alt":"Vivek Ghosal","file":{"fid":"197807","name":"ghosal_vivek3_soe_site_edited.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ghosal_vivek3_soe_site_edited_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ghosal_vivek3_soe_site_edited_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":105956,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ghosal_vivek3_soe_site_edited_0.jpg?itok=esXtbES2"}}},"media_ids":["242021"],"groups":[{"id":"1282","name":"School of Economics"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"171611","name":"Compeition"},{"id":"2029","name":"Competition"},{"id":"12489","name":"developing countries"},{"id":"171612","name":"Innovaation"},{"id":"341","name":"innovation"},{"id":"8766","name":"kenya"},{"id":"167037","name":"school of economics"},{"id":"167898","name":"sustainable development"},{"id":"13357","name":"Vivek Ghosal"},{"id":"2418","name":"world bank"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJade Hill, Communications Coordinator\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jade.hill@econ.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejade.hill@econ.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jade.hill@econ.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}