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...retired sub-Saharan African head of state who he determines has demonstrated good governance while in office and democratically ceded his position to his successor. That amount is the largest prize the world has seen yet, surpassing the $1.3 million of this year’s 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, according to the BBC. Kennedy School of Government Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy Robert I. Rotberg and a team of researchers are creating an index to evaluate former heads of state from 48 sub-Saharan African countries. That index will quantify a candidate’s efforts on providing security...
...apology? It's maddening that there's no cost for being wrong, even when it translates into thousands of people dead and billions of dollars down the drain. In our culture of value-free celebrity, in which a famous ax murderer equals a famous actress equals a famous Nobel Peace Prize winner, Adelman and Perle have merely earned another 15 minutes as hot guests on the talk shows. They have reason to be pleased, having deserted the Bush Administration five minutes ahead of the other rats. But they should try not to show their pleasure...
Never has there been a more timely recognition of the quiet revolution started by microcredit pioneer Muhammad Yunus than the awarding of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize [Oct. 23]. Yunus' achievement is a shining example of how social and religious prejudices can be sensitively overcome within a community and without the confrontation, sensationalism and politicization that seem to have become the hallmarks for handling issues today. For doing this and for subverting long-held economic principles, Yunus deserved both the Peace and the Economics Prizes...
...relies on assumptions that many economists consider outdated and inaccurate. Recent studies have shown little evidence of such job losses in states that have raised their minimum wage in recent years. A letter signed by 650 U.S. economists, including five past presidents of the American Economics Association and six Nobel laureates, argued that increases in the minimum wage have had little or no effect on employment, and that boosting the minimum wage would actually have a positive effect not just on workers and the labor market but on the overall economy...
Some of the posters are reminders of the august figures that the Institute has hosted. Particularly memorable are Nigerian Nobel Prize-winner Wole Soyinka’s many lectures at Harvard (including a series with fellow Nobel laureate Toni Morrison) and a discussion on jazz and American culture featuring documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and Institute Director and Fletcher University Professor Henry Louis Gates...