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Harvard’s Growth Lab researchers diagnose South Africa’s decline and suggest tough choices to move forward

Concluding a two-year investigation, researchers at Harvard Kennedy School’s Growth Lab have issued a stark diagnosis of the “collapsing state capacity” in South Africa after decades of policy ...
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Venezuela Before Chávez: Anatomy of an Economic Collapse

At the beginning of the twentieth century Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest country in the region and one of the twenty richest ...
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Enemy of the People: Trump's War on the Press, the New McCarthyism, and the Threat to American Democracy

Shortly after assuming office in January 2017, President Donald Trump accused the press of being an “enemy of the American people.” Attacks on the media had been a hallmark of Trump’s presidential ...
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Harvard Kennedy School celebrates community

Harvard Kennedy School international trade expert Robert Lawrence discusses what higher tariffs will mean for the United States and the world. Roger Porter, a Harvard Kennedy School expert on ...
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Building Capacity for Sustainable Development: a virtual seminar series

This series brings together ideas from experts and practical experience to address major problems facing the planet. This six-part series focused on six essential capacities for sustainability: to ...
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Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Citation Putnam, Robert D. Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Paperback Edition. Simon & Schuster, 2001.
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Does transparency improve governance?

THE IDEA THAT TRANSPARENCY can make institutions more effective and provide greater accountability and better results for the public seems uncontroversial on the surface. But scholars and officials ...
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Investing in the Unknown and the Unknowable.

From David Ricardo making a fortune buying British government bonds on the eve of the Battle of Waterloo to Warren Buffett selling insurance to the California earthquake authority, the wisest ...
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New York Reentry Study

The New York Reentry Study (NYRS) is a longitudinal panel survey of 25 men and their families in the first year after release from incarceration to New York City. Interviews focus on the topics of ...
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The Future of Power

In the era of Kennedy and Khrushchev, power was expressed in terms of nuclear missiles, industrial capacity, numbers of men under arms, and tanks lined up ready to cross the plains of Eastern Europe.
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Arnold Howitt

Arnold M. Howitt is Senior Adviser of the Roy and Lila Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at HKS. He also co-directs the Program on Crisis Leadership, jointly sponsored by the Ash ...
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Leading People, Building Teams

High-performing individuals are often rewarded with promotions to leadership positions. However, excelling as an individual contributor calls for a different skill set than excelling as a manager.