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Overcoming the Great Recession: Lessons from China

For the past decade, Liu He has been an influential economist and policy advisor in Beijing. An alumnus of the Harvard Kennedy School (MPA ’95), Liu was a trusted advisor to President Hu Jintao during ...
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Urban and Rural Leadership Trek

Treks are student-led, Taubman Center supported trips to meet state and local leaders in cities and towns in the country’s interior and in more rural areas. Below are examples of past Treks, including ...
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Looking for evidence-based solutions to advance gender equity? There’s a GAP for that

Behavioral economics consultant Raafi Alidina MPP 2016 was recently working with a client looking to increase the percentage of women in leadership at their company. They were open to a variety of ...
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Underfunded Public Pensions in the United States: The Size of the Problem, the Obstacles to Reform and the Path Forward

Across the United States, state and local government-sponsored pension plans are in trouble. They are dangerously underfunded to the extent that their assets are unable to meet future liabilities ...
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Less Is More: How Reducing Probation Populations Can Improve Outcomes

The Executive Session on Community Corrections released a new paper, entitled Less Is More: How Reducing Probation Populations Can Improve Outcomes. The authors find that probation has often not ...
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Infotopia: Unleashing the Democratic Power of Transparency

In Infotopia, citizens enjoy a wide range of information about the organizations upon which they rely for the satisfaction of their vital interests. The provision of that information is governed by ...
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Multi-Year Academic Calendar

Find important dates and events at Harvard Kennedy School from 2025 to 2030.
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Research Fellows

David Blumenthal David Blumenthal MD, MPP is Professor of Practice of Public Health and Health Policy at the Harvard Chan School of Public Health and a Research Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of ...
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The Economic Cost of Long COVID: An Update - David Cutler

2022, Paper: "In a 2020 JAMA Viewpoint, Lawrence Summers and I guessed at the possible economic costs of long COVID.1 At the time, we thought the cost might be $2.6 trillion. With more data, that ...
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Fintech, Financial Inclusion, and The Future of Finance

2024, Paper: "This paper explores the impact of financial technology (fintech) on financial in clusion, focusing on the cost of accessing essential financial services as a metric for financial ...
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Understanding how central banks use their balance sheets: A critical categorisation - Paul Tucker

June 1, 2021, Paper: "Since the Global Crisis, the size of central bank balance sheets has grown significantly. Traditional goals of price and financial stability are insufficient for assessing the ...
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Policing Los Angeles Under a Consent Decree: The Dynamics of Change at the LAPD

The Los Angeles Police Department is completing one of the most ambitious experiments in police reform ever attempted in an American city. After a decade of policing crises that began with the beating ...