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Decarbonise Now: Securing A Greener, Cleaner, Better Industrial Future
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2024-02)If we do not succeed in decarbonising our industries, net zero will not succeed. Industry, which includes ores and minerals mining, manufacturing, construction and waste management, accounted for approximately 24% of total ... -
Development and Security in the 21st Century
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023)Most of the literature on Sino-American relations focuses on conflicting policies (for instance over the South China Sea or intellectual property) or on characteristics of the international system (Multipolarity hegemony, ... -
The Development of National Payment Systems: Lessons Learned from Developing Country Payment Systems
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)The development of payment systems is critical to improve financial inclusion. This paper reviews the development of payment systems across four developing countries: Afghanistan, Kenya, Brazil, and India. There are two ... -
Disseminating Best Practice Equity Innovations in Health Care: A Synopsis of Study Groups with Health Care Executives
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2024-01)In the unusually warm fall of 2023, we hosted a series of study group sessions in Cambridge at Harvard University’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, with executives from well-known and highly regarded ... -
Earned Wage Access: An Innovation in Financial Inclusion?
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)Since the early 2010s, fintech companies have both gone directly to employees or partnered with employers to provide access to a portion of employees’ earned wages before payday. The growth of these companies, known as ... -
Economic Connectedness: How U.S. High Schools Can Enable Economic Mobility
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)This research on economic connectedness aims to explore the role of high schools in promoting cross-socioeconomic class friendships and therefore economic mobility. Interventions in high schools possess enormous potential ... -
Environmental Policy Lessons from Roman Agrarian Philosophy
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, 2022-04)This essay examines Roman agrarian philosophy and poetry, with a focus on the works of Cato, Varro, and Virgil, to argue that these texts are prescient in their vision of the sustainable city: one in which economic growth ... -
Financial Competition and Coexistence in a Bipolar World: Building an Effective U.S. Strategy for Engagement with China
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-03)This paper explores ways in which the United States might shape the structure and terms of its financial engagement with China more effectively. The recommended policies envision international institutions, payment systems ... -
Fiscal, Monetary and Macroprudential Regimes: Incentives-Values Compatibility in Constitutional Democracies
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, 2022-07)I have been asked to write something about the appropriate institutional structure for monetary, macroprudential and fiscal policies in an environment of persistently low interest rates. That is one important plausible ... -
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 ... -
A Growth Policy to Close Britain's Regional Divides: What Needs to be Done
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2024-02)Britain has huge geographic inequalities in economic outcomes, health, education and social mobility. While these have existed for centuries, they have widened in recent years. These divides, both between and within regions, ... -
Identity Assurance in an Era of Digital Disruption: Planning a Controlled Transition
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)This paper endeavors to make the case that we should begin a controlled transition towards widespread online identity assurance over the next decade. While pressure building in this direction over the past five years, the ... -
Monetary Policy in Developing Economies: Lessons Learned from Afghanistan’s Central Bank
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)The study and conduct of monetary policy is well established for developed market central banks. The literature is less comprehensive for smaller developing economies. This paper hopes to contribute to such literature.1 ... -
The Past & Future of Indian Finance
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)India’s growth story depends on the vitality of its financial system. Within the span of five years, the Indian economy has endured two unprecedented shocks: the 2019 economic slowdown triggered by a financial crisis, and ... -
Playing Divide-and-Choose Given Uncertain Preferences
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, 2022-07)We study the classic divide-and-choose method for equitably allocating divisible goods between two players who are rational, self-interested Bayesian agents. The players have additive private values drawn from common ... -
Re-Thinking U.S. Policy on Engagement with Chinese Financial Institutions
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, 2022-05)Against the backdrop of heightened tensions between China and the United States that is accompanying the Ukraine war, this paper considers practical measures that the United States might take to manage the inbound investment ... -
Reducing the Burden of Government Regulation
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-03)Government regulations can impose significant costs on businesses that are then passed onto consumers in higher prices. This paper considers the different approaches that the UK and other governments have adopted to try ... -
Risk, Uncertainty and the Future of Corporate Human Rights Due Diligence
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2022-12)Corporate human rights due diligence is now a social fact; it is no longer merely an idea or aspiration. This paper uses economist Frank H. Knight’s famous, albeit controversial, distinction between risk and uncertainty ... -
Saito Renho on Japanese economic growth, ‘Abenomics’, redistribution, and future innovation in Japan
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2022-03)March 2022. Harvard Kennedy School fellow Richard Yarrow and Harvard students Tasuku Ono and Candice Yang recently interviewed Saito Renho, a longtime leader in Japan’s opposition Constitutional Democratic Party. Renho, ... -
The Struggle for Sustainable Development in Appalachia’s Mineral Rich Mountains
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, 2022-05)This teaching case examines this paradox of poverty amidst plenty. To do this, the case explores the co-evolving history of nature and society in the Central Appalachian region from the Native American period through to ...