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Advancing equity in climate investments with catalytic capital
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)As Prime Coalition nears a decade of investment activity, it is a critical moment in time for the organization to reflect on its unique position in the catalytic capital climate investing space, assess its impact to date ... -
AI for the People: The Use of AI to Improve Government Performance
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-04)7:00 AM, the alarm goes off. 8:00 AM, you have a cup of coffee, scan the news, and check your email on your phone. During that single hour you have interacted with artificial intelligence (AI) numerous times. The coffee ... -
AI, Judges and Judgment: Setting the Scene
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-11)Artificial intelligence (AI) in the administration of justice is growing at rapid pace. This is driven by widespread recognition of AI justice’s undeniable advantages, despite the risks it presents to the integrity of legal ... -
Are regulations achieving their objectives? Post Implementation Reviews – why they should be done, why they aren’t done and how to get them done
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2024-03)Regulatory policy is often under-prioritised by governments, particularly when compared with the detailed focus associated with tax and spending measures. Even where a clear policy development process is adopted and applied ... -
Assessing the impacts of primary and secondary legislation – a Real Options approach to rules for making rules
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2024-01)Impact assessments (IAs) of government regulatory policy proposals set out their expected costs, benefits and risks and who is likely to face those impacts. In the UK, primary legislation can confer powers on Government ... -
Capital Account Liberalization and China’s Financial Integration
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-02)After four decades of rapid economic growth, China has become the world's second-largest economy and established intricate trade ties with the rest of the world. Nonetheless, China's financial integration is still in its ... -
Catalyzing Regional Energy Transitions: Improving Conditions for Inflation Reduction Act Implementation in Central Appalachia and Texas
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)Last year’s passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (H.R.5376) was a historic commitment by the United States toward achieving its climate goal of reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 50 to 52 percent below 2005 levels by ... -
Central Bank Reserves Management: Lessons Learned from Afghanistan’s Central Bank
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)This paper reviews the international reserves management strategy of Afghanistan’s central bank (DAB). We also review the sanctions and legal issues pertaining to DAB’s reserves upon the fall of the previous government. ... -
China’s Coming Era of Slow Growth
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-04)The best way to understand China’s present and future is that the Chinese reform era emulated the “Little Dragons,” South Korea, Taiwan, and (to a lesser degree) Singapore. The little dragons were initially run by ruthless ... -
Co-Location and Crime Reporting: Does a Salient Crime Impact Subsequent Crime Reporting in That Location? The “Nirbhaya” Case in Delhi
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-06)In 2012, anger erupted on the streets of Delhi following the violent rape and murder of a young woman. The scale of the protests, and the intensity of the public’s opprobrium of the police and the administration of Delhi, ... -
Content Moderation in the United States and Europe: Similar Values, Different Approaches
(Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government, 2023-01)One hundred years ago the eminent British economist Arthur Pigou identified the problem of externalities, of a business not absorbing all of the costs associated with the goods or services it produced and sold. Classic ... -
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 ...