Hausmann, RicardoBarrios, DouglasMuhaj, DanielaNoor, SeharPan, CarolinaSantos, Miguel AngelTapia Rodriguez, Jorge AndresZuccolo, Bruno2020-11-242020-10Hausmann, Ricardo, Douglas Barrios, Daniela Muhaj, Sehar Noor, Carolina Pan, Miguel Angel Santos, Jorge Tapia, and Bruno Zuccolo. “Emerging Cities as Independent Engines of Growth: The Case of Buenos Aires.” CID Working Paper Series 2020.385, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October 2020.https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37366421What 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 a 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.en-USResearch Paper or Report2020-11-24