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- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
Parliament: “I was an independent member and every time I wanted to speak on an issue I was allowed to speak. So whether it was on framing the national slum policy or whether it was the domestic violence against women act or whether it was the View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
Alfaro, is more sanguine. She notes, "The Latin American population is young and optimistic. Despite the problem of income inequality, the potential is there. If the economies and the infrastructure continue to improve, and access to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
disparity between rural and urban populations widens. Wanda S. Tseng, deputy director of the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department, offered an overview of Asia's current economic strengths and weaknesses. "There are no quick fixes," she... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
into an ambitious Financial Inclusion Program to serve previously unbanked rural populations through a rapid expansion of its branch network and the use of nonbank business correspondents? In addition, should the bank commit part of its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
heterogeneity does not address the similarity critique of discrete-choice models. Although IIA may technically be broken in aggregate, the mixed logit model allows neither a given individual nor the population as a whole to behave with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
associated with the program rollout, we use both population based morbidity measures from the Demographic and Health Surveys and health facility based mortality data as reported in the national Health Management Information System. While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 20
is a network of successful private health clinics that primarily serve middle-income populations but which have the potential to reach low-income markets. On what basis should Acumen decide whether or not to invest? What performance... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2025
- News
The Working Parent Revolution
recognized children as dependents, right? And I think it's only been more recently that employers are recognizing with an aging workforce, but also with an aging population that if they don't lean in to senior care and supporting... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- News
Bringing Government Up to Code
jobs, and justice. All of our focus areas are looking at vulnerable populations and helping people find a path out of poverty. And the initiative that you saw was GetCalFresh, which is one of our big food initiatives in California, to... View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
Using data from a randomized field experiment embedded in a startup boot camp for early stage entrepreneurs, our findings show that innovators who are more open to experience do generate better ideas, but only when they converse with extroverted peers. Further, we find... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
terrible Foxconn suicides. The one-child-per-family policy was beginning to create a population shortage that meant cheap labor was running out. The old low-cost manufacturing-for-export strategy had run out of steam. They were developing... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
value on average quality and less value on total quantity. With competing platforms, the effect of user preferences for quantity is reversed. Furthermore, exclusion incentives depend in a non-trivial way on the proportion of high-quality users in the overall View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
BRIC-Brazil, Russia, India, and China. These four countries encompassed almost 50% of the world's population in 1910, but remarkably few of their citizens attended any school in the early 20th century. We present new, comparable data on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 23
in a population. This chapter advances a historical comparison of these two methods-individual case reports and population meta-analysis-and draws attention to the fragmentation of the institutional basis for assessing pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
services and become part of the formal financial system, is considered a key prerequisite for lifting these populations out of poverty and for driving economic growth. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
the future of his home, Abu Dhabi, one of the emirates comprising the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The tiny, sandy, and dry emirate with a population of 1.5 million, only 420,000 of whom were citizens, was nestled upon nearly 10% of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
ahead. But they had virtually no experience in the roles of government and private sector in creating a dynamic economy. Putting Myanmar in perspective, it's the size of Texas, and it has a population of 54 million-- same as California... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
of Buenos Aires’s population was foreign born, and it could be regarded as one of the world’s greatest global cities.” Today, the city is a decaying shadow of itself and Argentina as a whole has fallen prey to ineffective institutions,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Do We Tax?
through the 1960s. Combining Equal Sacrifice with Utilitarianism better represents the preferences that people hold in the population at large, according to Weinzierl, and makes the theory's recommendations align much better with the... View Details