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The Critical Human Rights Issues of 2022: Year in Review
(Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, 2022-12)
AAs 2022 draws to a close, the Carr Center and its affiliates are reflecting on events and issues around the world that continue to shape our approach to protecting human rights. As new developments unfold in the political, ...
Prioritizing Public Value in the Changing Mobility Landscape
(Harvard University, 2020-01)
In this paper we will look at the values and goals cities affect with policies concerning connected mobility, and how to create a new framework that aligns with these objectives. First, we identify the transformative changes ...
Grow Now, Regulate Later? Regulation urgently needed to support transparency and sustainable growth for Buy-Now, Pay-Later
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, 2022-04)
“Buy Now, Pay Later” (BNPL) companies have seen significant growth in the past few years in the U.S. market. BNPL products are expected to account for a considerable portion (12%) of ecommerce sales by 2025. Despite BNPL’s ...
On the Persistence of the China Shock
(Harvard Kennedy School, 2021)
We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to 2019. The shock plateaued in 2010, enabling analysis of its effects for nearly a decade past its culmination. ...
Stumbling bear, soaring dragon: Russia, China and the geopolitics of global science
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government; Policy Institute at King’s College London, 2022-07)
This, the fourth paper in a series by the Policy Institute at King’s College London and affiliates of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, is an evaluation of international ...
Cutting Putin’s Energy Rent: ‘Smart Sanctioning’ Russian Oil and Gas
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2022-04)
Following the Russian aggression against Ukraine, major sanctions have been imposed by Western countries, most notably with the aim of limiting Russia’s access to hard international currency. However, Russia remains the ...
New Avenues for Colombia’s Internationalization: Trade in Tasks
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2021-12)
One of the consequences of COVID-19 is the recognition that many tasks can be done from home. But anything that can done remotely, can be done from abroad.
Given large salary differences between white collar workers ...
Effectively Managing Connected Mobility Marketplaces
(Harvard University, 2020-02)
As new innovations in mobility have entered the marketplace, local government leaders have struggled to adapt their regulatory framework to adequately address new challenges or the needs of the consumers of these new ...
Does Birthplace Diversity Affect Economic Complexity? Cross-country Evidence
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-03)
We empirically investigate the relationship between a country’s economic complexity and the diversity in the birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that countries with higher birthplace diversity ...
Place-specific Determinants of Income Gaps: New Sub-National Evidence from Chiapas, Mexico
(Center for International Development at Harvard University, 2020-02)
The literature on income gaps between Chiapas and the rest of Mexico revolves around individual factors, such as education and ethnicity. Yet, twenty years after the Zapatista rebellion, the schooling gap between Chiapas ...