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...number of people living on less than $1 a day in sub-Saharan Africa has more than doubled since 1981. The scale of the disparity is larger than most Americans can comprehend, and it will only widen if leaders do not take dramatic action. As one of the world??s foremost academic institutions, Harvard is uniquely poised to identify and train leaders with the capacity to effect this kind of change. The CID plays a pivotal role in this process; shutting it down would be detrimental not only to the Harvard community, but also to the larger world...
...supply problems. Unfortunately, supply is not the major cause of these price rises. Runaway economic growth in China and India is, and it has been for some time now as the two Asian giants continue to modernize their economies. Short of trying to derail economic growth in the world??s two most populous nations, there is very little the United States government can do to stop worldwide demand for oil increasing. Much like the experience of the U.S. during the early 1980s, there is little that can be done to reduce our dependence on foreign oil aside from...
...world??s foremost scholars of American and British imperial history is about to join Harvard’s empire on the Charles...
Niall Ferguson, the widely regarded economic historian, abandoned England last year for the country he believes to be the world??s top empire today, and is now leaving New York University (NYU) for Cambridge...
...only is Glaeser “the world??s leading expert on urban economics,” Cutler wrote in an e-mail Saturday, but “he is also a leading expert on behavioral economics—the study of why people make the decisions they do, and how that plays out in markets...