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Mining operations in DRC
 
Mining operations in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Image credit: Enough Project
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Mathias Risse, Christian Ketels
May 21, 2024, Opinion: "More than three decades after Michael E. Porter’s seminal “Competitive Advantage of Nations” (Porter, 1990), the competitive environment has changed…
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Making a Movement
 
Linda Bilmes, Soroush Saghafian, Iris Bohnet, John Donahue, Jay Rosengard, John Haigh, Jason Furman, Jeffrey Frankel, Mark Fagan, Archon Fung, Sheila Jasanoff, Henry Lee, Jane Nelson, Mathias Risse
In 2023, the international community celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The creation of such a document—its mere existence—must…
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Dara Kay Cohen
What are the social and political consequences of poor state governance and low state legitimacy? Under what conditions does lynching – lethal, extralegal group violence to punish…
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This 34-chapter open-access book brings together leading scholars to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy. Well over…
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This 34-chapter open-access book brings together leading scholars to investigate recent conceptual shifts, research findings and policy debates on the informal economy. Well over…
Hungary’s Attack on Academic Freedom
 
See the op-ed in The Boston Globe by Carr Senior Fellow . An authoritarian…
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Mathias Risse
Economic theory teaches us that it is in every country’s own best interest to engage in trade.   Trade therefore is a voluntary activity among consenting parties. On this…