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Juan Jimenez: Bringing real-world development and political experience to bear on complex challenges

Economist and public leader Juan Jimenez MPA/ID 2010 has returned to Harvard Kennedy School as a lecturer in public policy. An expert in political economy and economic development, Jimenez served as ...
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Pippa Norris

Pippa Norris, the Paul F. McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at HKS, and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Government, has taught at Harvard for three decades. She compares democracy, ...
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Impact of Patents on Access to HIV/AIDS Drugs in Developing Countries

This paper uses sales data on HIV/AIDS drugs in a sample of 34 low and middle income countries between 1995 and 1999 to assess empirically the impact of patents on unsubsidized access to a new drug ...
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The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy.

In this paper, John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago's Department of Political Science and Stephen M.Walt of Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government contend that the centerpiece ...
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Joseph Aldy

Joe Aldy is the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of the Practice of Environmental Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, a University Fellow at Resources for the ...
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India's GDP Mis-estimation: Likelihood, Magnitudes, Mechanisms, and Implications

India changed its data sources and methodology for estimating real gross domestic product (GDP) for the period since 2011-12. This paper shows that this change has led to a significant overestimation ...
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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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Jerome H. Grossman M.D. Graduate Fellowships

Tackling the complex and critical challenges facing the United States health care system requires visionary leaders who combine knowledge and experience in the practice of medicine with the public ...
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Healthcare Policy Program Faculty

Ruth L. Newhouse Associate Professor of Health Care Policy, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor of Medicine and Assistant Physician in the Department of ...
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Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much

Why do successful people get things done at the last minute? Why does poverty persist? Why do organizations get stuck firefighting? Why do the lonely find it hard to make friends? These questions seem ...
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Executive Certificate Frequently Asked Questions

What is the benefit of earning an Executive Certificate? Your Harvard Kennedy School Executive Certificate is a significant enhancement to your résumé that recognizes your successful completion of ...