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Closing loopholes and raising revenue, new tax reforms will be crucial to the success of the Inflation Reduction Act

President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act into law this week. The headlines will focus on the environmental and energy policies designed to address the climate change crisis, as well as ...
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An enduring commitment to service: celebrating veterans and service members at HKS

Veterans and active-duty military members form an important part of the Kennedy School community. Over the past ten years, more than 500 U.S. active duty service members, reservists, and veterans have ...
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Justin J. Pearson on his expulsion from the Tennessee legislature and being in a “movement moment”

In April, the Republican-led Tennessee State House voted to expel Justin J. Pearson and Justin Jones, two Black Democratic members of the House, for speaking out on the House floor as part of a gun ...
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Private Credit & Systemic Risk

June 2025, Paper: "The private credit market has rapidly expanded in recent years, becoming an established source of corporate loans to middle-market firms, a key financing tool for private equity ...
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API-201: Quantitative Analysis and Empirical Methods

API-201 is required for MPP students and is a prerequisite to API-202. The R sections teach students to use the statistical programming language R, move more quickly through the material, and prepare ...
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Building State Capability: Evidence, Analysis, Action

Governments play a major role in the development process, constantly introducing reforms and policies to achieve developmental objectives. Many of these interventions have limited impact, however; ...
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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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Social Capital: Measurement and Consequences

Putnam, Robert D. "Social Capital: Measurement and Consequences." Isuma: Canadian Journal of Policy Research 2 (Spring 2001): 41-51.
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Black Lives Matter May Be the Largest Movement in U.S. History

According to research conducted by Erica Chenoweth and the Crowd Sourcing Consortium, 15 million to 26 million people in the U.S. have participated in George Floyd protests. Recent research conducted ...
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From Miracle to Maturity: The Growth of the Korean Economy

The economic growth of South Korea has been a remarkable success story. After the Korean War, the country was one of the poorest economies on the planet; by the twenty-first century, it had become a ...
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Why Investing in Women Benefits us All

Road to GEM24 Podcast: Progress, Gaps, and Strategies for Women's Economic Empowerment The World Economic Forum’s global gender gap score, which measures gender parity around the world, stands at 68 ...
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Sovereign Debt Restructuring with China at the Table: Forward Progress but Lost Decade Risk Remains

Sovereign debt restructuring deals have not been smooth sailing over the last few years. They have moved slowly, been marked by bickering between China and G7 stalwarts, and the outcomes have been ...