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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…
July 22, 2020, Video, "In this episode of Harvard Kennedy School's Dean's Discussions, HKS faculty members discuss the impact of COVID-19 on developing countries, and what public…
December 17, 2019, Opinion, "Some of the leading candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination have proposed radical measures to reduce inequality, such as a wealth…
Does Trade Fuel Inequality? Jeffrey Frankel, January 2, 2018, Opinion, "To explain the rise in inequality that began in the 1980s and has accelerated since the turn of the…
The Blind Alley of Monetary Populism. Jeffrey Frankel, October 25, 2016, Opinion, "In the United States and elsewhere nowadays, populist politicians often claim that easy monetary…
Reckoning with Inequality. Jeffrey Frankel, March 22, 2016, Opinion. "When it comes to the rise in economic inequality since the 1970s in the United States and some other…
Nominal GDP Targeting for Developing Countries. Jeffrey Frankel, 2015, Paper. "Interest in nominal GDP (NGDP) targeting has come in the context of large advanced economies.…
The Subsidy Trap. Jeffrey Frankel, August 14, 2014. Opinion. "Few policies place good economics so directly at odds with good politics as subsidies for food and energy. The issue…