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12 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

Innovation has always relied, to some degree, on government support. But a recent study suggests that public funding might be even more influential than it seems. “Nearly a third of US patents rely directly on US View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

2000
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Administrative Barriers to Foreign Investment: Reducing Red Tape in Africa

By: L. T. Wells Jr., Timothy S. Buehrer, James J. Emery and Melvin T. Spence Jr.

Keywords: Government and Politics; Foreign Direct Investment

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10 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

were virtually unaffected.) These numbers should be of interest to policymakers in developed countries, Nanda says. "This goes against the conventional wisdom held in government policy circles and elsewhere that there are a large... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments

and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It's time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition to individuals, should be... View Details

Keywords: by Eric Werker

12 Nov 2024
News

4 Manufacturing Issues to Watch Under a New Trump Administration

10 May 2023
Video

Driving Climate Performance Through Accountability and Governance

27 Mar 2020
News

Former SBA Administrator on what the passing of The CARES Act means for small businesses

16 Oct 2014
News

Reducing special-interest influence over government regulation

including, but not limited to, deregulation,” write Moss and his coauthor Daniel Carpenter, the Freed Professor of Government at Harvard University. In fact, the evidence suggests that strong or pervasive types of regulatory capture—the... View Details

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

local governments can be used to predict the number of public workers that governments laid off during the early months of COVID-19’s spread, with higher sales tax dependence leading to more layoffs. “State... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

22 Apr 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness

Keywords: by Frank Nagle

15 Sep 2020
Working Paper Summaries

State and Local Government Employment in the COVID-19 Crisis

Keywords: by Daniel Green and Erik Loualiche

March 2020
Case

Brazil: Contesting the Rules of Government

By: Sophus A. Reinert and Jonathan Schlefer

Brazilian factions so fiercely opposed one another that for a century and a half they had contested not just state policies but the rules and structure of the state itself. Was this politics, so unlike the Western political ideal, sign of an immature or failing... View Details

Keywords: Governance; Policy; Government Administration; Government and Politics; Social Issues; Brazil

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Louis E. Caldera on the Panama Canal and DEI Under Trump's Administration

By: Louis Caldera and June Carolyn Erlick

Louis E. Caldera, a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, chaired the Panama Canal Commission the year the Canal was returned to Panama, 1999. He was also the first (and only) Latino to serve as Secretary of the Army. He talks on issues ranging from President... View Details

Keywords: Government Administration; History; National Security; Diversity; Panama; United States

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20 Dec 2018
News

Consumer Rating Algorithms Score Big with Businesses, Governments

13 Nov 2020
Working Paper Summaries

The European Commission’s Sustainable Corporate Governance Report: A Critique

Keywords: by Mark Roe, Holger Spamann, Jesse Fried, and Charles Wang

2019
Working Paper

Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness

By: Frank Nagle

This study seeks to better understand the impact that government technology procurement regulations have on social value and national competitiveness. To do this, it examines the impact of a change in France’s technology procurement policy that required government... View Details

Keywords: Social Value; Competitiveness; Government Administration; Information Technology; Acquisition; Policy; Value

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28 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

Act)-leveraged effective federal programs that already existed, while also taking action in some new areas. With the Recovery Act, the federal government significantly expanded its role as a guarantor of small business capital,... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking

News

Two Argentine Economists Cited by the Trump Administration to Justify Its Tariffs

September 2014
Article

Metropolitan Blueprints of Colonial Taxation? Lessons from Fiscal Capacity Building in British and French Africa, 1880-1940

By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg

The historical and social science literature is divided about the importance of metropolitan blueprints of colonial rule for the development of colonial states. We exploit historical records of colonial state finances to explore the importance of metropolitan identity... View Details

Keywords: Colonial Administration; Quantitative Sources; Governance; Money; Taxation; Trade; History; Africa

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