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Anti-Corruption and Good Governance: Drivers of Peace, Security and Development
The session will discuss the role of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in supporting the implementation of the UN ...
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With the move to freeze foreign aid, the international development sector stands at a crossroads, HKS experts say
The Trump administration’s move to freeze U.S. foreign aid and development work is a seismic event. International development ...
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DOGE is putting the country’s data and computing infrastructure at risk, HKS expert argues
Cyber security expert Bruce Schneier worries that DOGE’s access to highly sensitive information is giving bad actors a chance ...
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Spring 2025 Institute of Politics Fellows exchange views on U.S. and world news events
From the conflict in Ukraine to major shifts in U.S. campaign finance and media, experts share their insights on today’s ...
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The Coming Rise in Residential Inflation - Lawrence Summers
February 2022, Paper: "We study how the recent run-up in housing and rental prices affects the outlook for inflation in the United States. Housing held down overall inflation in 2021. Despite record ...
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The Double-Edged Sword of Low Interest Rates - N. Gregory Mankiw
December 6, 2020, Opinion: "In the evolution of the U.S. economy over the past four decades, one fact stands out as especially puzzling: the large and fairly steady decline in interest rates. Consider ...
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What Does Bidenomics Look Like? Jason Furman
December 2, 2020, Audio: "In Washington, personnel is policy. The people President-elect Joe Biden has picked to run economic policy can tell us a lot about what we might expect from the next ...
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Black history Speaks - Cornel West
September 14, 2020, Video: "Cornel West is a prominent and provocative democratic intellectual. He is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and holds the title of ...
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Estimating the Distributional Implications of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act - Aparna Mathur
2021, Paper: "This paper provides a distributional analysis of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), with implications for American households from changes to the individual income and corporate income ...
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Gender Differences in Communicative Abstraction and their Organizational Implications - Laura Huang
2021, Paper: "Our research shows that men and women differ in their use of communicative abstraction, with men using more abstract communication than women. Because people rely on communicative ...
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US unemployment remains worse than it seems as millions still out of the labor force - Jason Furman & WIllie Powell
March 5, 2021, Opinion: "The labor market improved in February 2021 as employers added 379,000 jobs, leaving the economy at 11.9 million jobs below its pre-pandemic trend. At the same time the ...
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The credibility of corruption statistics - Matthew Stephenson
2021, Paper: "Most global corruption statistics are based on estimation, extrapolation, or generalisation. How plausible are they? We review ten of the most widely cited claims, tracing each to its ...