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India's GDP Mis-estimation: Likelihood, Magnitudes, Mechanisms, and Implications

India changed its data sources and methodology for estimating real gross domestic product (GDP) for the period since 2011-12. This paper shows that this change has led to a significant overestimation ...
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Post-Election 2024: The Future of Human Rights in the U.S.

Following the results of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, a second administration under Donald Trump has already sparked conversation over the path forward for democracy and how to safeguard many ...
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.

In this paper, John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago's Department of Political Science and Stephen M.Walt of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government contend that the centerpiece ...
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The Natural Resource Curse

Countries with oil, mineral or other natural resource wealth, on average, have failed to show better economic performance than those without, often because of undesirable side effects. This is the ...
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King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa

“In the 1880s, as the European powers were carving up Africa, King Leopold II of Belgium seized for himself the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. Carrying out a ...
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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

Why do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty persist? Why do organizations get stuck firefighting? Why do the lonely find it hard to make friends? These questions seem ...
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Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse

At the beginning of the twentieth century Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest country in the region and one of the twenty richest ...
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Executive Certificate Frequently Asked Questions

What is the benefit of earning an Executive Certificate? Your Harvard Kennedy School Executive Certificate is a significant enhancement to your résumé that recognizes your successful completion of ...
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Partisan Alignment Increases Voter Turnout: Evidence from Redistricting

Partisan gerrymandering and polarization have created an electoral landscape where Americans increasingly reside in congressional districts dominated by one party. Are individuals more likely to vote ...
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Healthcare Policy Program Faculty

Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor of Medicine and Assistant Physician in the Department of ...
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The Geography of Banks in the United States (1990-2020)

We present new statistical indicators of the structure and performance of US banks from 1990 to today, geographically disaggregated at the level of individual counties. The constructed data set (20 ...
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The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power

The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power. David Yoffie, 2019, Book, "The Business of Platforms explores the strategic, economic, and technology ...