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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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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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Carlos A. Pérez-Dávila

Mr. Carlos A. Pérez-Dávila is a Senior Managing Director at Quadrant Capital Advisors, Inc. in New York City. Mr. Pérez-Dávila is a Member of the Board of Bavaria S.A in Colombia. He is also a Member ...
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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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Explainer: Why government shutdowns keep happening in the United States

The U.S. government shut down on October 1 as Republican and Democratic funding bills failed to reach the necessary number of votes in the Senate and efforts to prevent a shutdown failed. Government ...
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Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit

September 30, 2024, Paper: "This paper examines whether regulatory arbitrage can explain the growth of private credit. We show that business development companies (BDCs) — closed-end funds that ...
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Advisory Council

Members Tala Al Jabri,Middle East VC Association Amneh Alqasimi, Investment & Development Office Scott Amero, formerly of BlackRock Ambassador Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, Ambassador-at-Large ...
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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 ...
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Tony Saich: What kind of world does Xi Jinping want?

WHEN GENERAL SECRETARY XI JINPING agreed a “Joint Statement” with President Putin claiming there would be “no limits” to the relationship, some wondered whether this heralded the creation of a new ...
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Jeffry Frieden on Globalization, the Rise of Populism, and the Future of Democracy

January 2020. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interview Jeffry Frieden, Chair of the Department of Government at Harvard and Stanfield Professor of International Peace, on globalization, the rise of ...