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Why is the war in Iran so expensive?

How much does the war in Iran cost? The war costs America two billion dollars each day, says war budgeting expert and Harvard Kennedy School faculty member Linda Bilmes—and will cost at least one ...
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Former UN Ambassador and National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice Joins Belfer Center as Senior Fellow

Cambridge, MA – Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs has named former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice a ...
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Fallacies, hard truths, and lessons learned from the global response to COVID-19

Researchers from Harvard, Cornell, and dozens of other universities around the world are conducting an ongoing analysis to compare 18 nations’ responses to the COVID-19 pandemic to determine what ...
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How Armed Conflict Devastates Women’s and Children’s Health Globally: CID Faculty Research Insights

How does armed conflict affect the health of women and children, and what are the long-term public health consequences in conflict zones? Armed conflict imposes a profound and multifaceted burden on ...
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Are we officially at war with Iran?

On April 1, President Trump made his first formal public address about the United States’ military actions in Iran. His speech came over a month after the United States and Israel sent missiles and ...
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HKS on the Road

View our past HKS on the Road event photos in the caption links. 79 John F. Kennedy Street ...
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The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict

Apart from its tragic human toll, the Iraq War will be staggeringly expensive in financial terms. In The Three Trillion Dollar War, Nobel Prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz and Harvard professor Linda J.
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News & Announcements

Samantha Power, former USAID administrator and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, returns to Harvard with a joint faculty appointment at the Kennedy School and the Law School ...
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Shackled to the Past: The Causes and Consequences of Africa’s Slave Trades

Shackled to the Past: The Causes and Consequences of Africa’s Slave Trades. Nathan Nunn, August 2008, Book Chapter."This chapter uses statistical techniques to assess whether there is evidence that ...
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Groundbreakers: How Obama’s 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America

Missing from most accounts of the 2008 and 2012 campaigns to elect Barack Obama president is the story of how Obama for America organized 2.2 million volunteers into a grassroots army. Unlike many ...
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The Geopolitics of Surveillance Capitalism

Surveillance capitalism represents a new form of capitalism that converts human behavior into data for tracking, analysis, and monetization. Yet this framing obscures the deeper architecture that ...
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Fintech, Financial Inclusion, and The Future of Finance

2024, Paper: "This paper explores the impact of financial technology (fintech) on financial in clusion, focusing on the cost of accessing essential financial services as a metric for financial ...