Government Agricultural Policy - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2007
News

Getting Security Right

and economic priorities. Another factor both business and government leaders struggle with is the media’s tendency to provide the public with oversimplified or just plain inaccurate information about political, economic, or competitive... View Details

Keywords: Government; Government; Government; Government

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

they need to make decisions about care. The government or a broad consortium of employers could jump-start the collection and dissemination process by agreeing on a standard set of information that would be collected nationally on a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

01 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?

derail us." What's the business leaders' mood? It varies by region. In Europe, the feeling is that there will be continued economic progress, that markets will work well, but that there is an unwillingness or inability of democratically elected View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2011
News

Tax and Grow

© politicalcartoons.com/Jimmy Margulies With the U.S. economic recovery stuck in low gear and traditional monetary and fiscal policy options seemingly exhausted, now is a good time to consider more novel approaches to stimulating growth.... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Government; Government; Government; Government

01 Sep 2007
News

Ali Allawi

Governing Council. A member of a prominent Shia family who fled after the revolution of 1958, Allawi was educated in England and the United States, worked for the World Bank, and later became an investment banker. He watched the fall of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Government; Government

10 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Innovations to Address the Global Water Crisis

policy and business leaders, given that it accounts for approximately 70% of global water use. Speaking about the agricultural sector’s role in the global water crisis, Connor argued that “irrigation for... View Details

03 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 3, 2006

development in Africa and in other low-income countries. Provides a brief political and economic history of Rwanda, but focuses on the country preceding and after the genocide. A description of government View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 May 2016
Research & Ideas

When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions

1989 to 2014, using data from LexisNexis, the Mass Shootings in America (MSA) project at Stanford University, and a list of shootings created by USA Today. They focused on state rather than Federal regulations, as state governments are... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

side) competing with a lack of an industrial policy (on the US side). Going all the way back to the mid-1980s, the Chinese government has been mapping a pathway for the country to become a modern economy... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

23 Jul 2024
In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

fence” that National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan mentions—without provoking conflict or strangling economic development—requires walking a tightrope that the government is ill-equipped to do. Business expertise, especially in advanced... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications

28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

philanthropic dollars. Some of our members who have been active in philanthropy have said, “I realized that I needed to get involved in getting our democracy to work because my philanthropy isn’t having the impact it could when the policy... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

01 Jun 2012
News

Letters to the Editor

The capital gains rate is a policy lever, not a social lever. A government should care about the less fortunate, for sure. But a government cannot achieve that by punishing... View Details

Keywords: Government; Government; Government; Government

22 Mar 2016
First Look

March 22, 2016

role of specific economic and political institutions in shaping the business environment and economic growth in emerging markets. It gives answers to the following questions: When will governments define and enforce property rights? When... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2008
News

India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"

natural and human resources, poverty nonetheless prevails — some 350 million Indians live on less than one dollar a day. “The government of India faces the challenge of leveraging huge natural and human resources to ensure rapid economic... View Details

Keywords: Government; Government

01 Jun 2003
News

Unsung Hero

where, with her banking and diplomatic skills, she became a policy advisor to the State Department’s Counterterrorism Finance and Designation Unit. She trains foreign government officials and bankers on... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Sep 2009
News

Over the Top

pay for poor performance wasn’t just an AIG phenomenon. On Wall Street, it was endemic. Bankers gave themselves nearly $20 billion in 2008 bonuses, even as the economy was spiraling downward and the government was spending billions on... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Government; Government; Government; Government

15 Apr 2017
News

Bringing Markets to Myanmar

most recent work was with the government of Myanmar, which recently emerged from decades of military rule with a planned economy. Bulletin editor Dan Morrell talked to David about his experience in Myanmar, and what the process of private... View Details