Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
We compare two approaches to increasing tax revenue: tax administration and tax rates. We show that when Indonesia moved top regional firms…
• The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented strain on public finances across developing countries. Large fiscal responses and weak…
Eric Henson is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and has been a research fellow/affiliate with the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance…
For many Americans, cities have become a beacon of hope. They are widely recognized as engines of the U.S. economy and laboratories of…
While the agenda of “beyond GDP” encompasses measurements that lie outside boundaries of the System of National Accounts, key aspects of…
In the 1960s, public support for Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), a federal program that provided cash benefits to eligible…
Many organizations have budgets that expire at the end of the fiscal year and may face incentives to rush to spend resources on low-quality…
Can governments increase private savings by taxing savings up front instead of in retirement? Roth 401(k) contributions are not tax-…
Jay Rosengard, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, has fifty years of international experience designing,…