Supply Chain Management: A Public Sector Perspective
This book provides practical insight into how to improve the effectiveness, resilience, and agility of supply chain operation in the public domain.
Research
Global health 2050: the path to halving premature death by mid-century
In Global Health 2050, the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health concludes that dramatic improvements in human welfare are achievable by mid-century with focused health investments.
Behind the Curve: Can Manufacturing Still Provide Inclusive Growth?
Manufacturing jobs, once the backbone of the modern US economy, have declined as a share of GDP over recent decades, darkening opportunities for middle-class advancement.
Sovereign Debt: 200 Years of Creditor Losses
We study sovereign external debt crises over the past 200 years, with a focus on creditor losses, or “haircuts”.
Servicing Development: Productive Upgrading of Labor-Absorbing Services in Developing Countries
The future of developing countries lies in services. Enhancing productivity in labor-absorbing services in particular must be an essential priority, for reasons of both growth and equity.
How to smooth US-China economic relations for the benefit of the global economy: A light model of global economic governance
The U.S.-China conflict is threatening continued global economic prosperity and this has inspired a variety of predictions and prescriptions on the future global order.
Beyond a niche approach: Could social business become the norm?
[T]here is an imperative to examine how alternative forms of organizing--ones that diverge from the dominant corporate model focused solely on profit maximization--can help confront this multidimensio
On the design of effective sanctions: the case of bans on exports to russia
We build on Baqaee and Farhi (2019, 2021) and derive a theoretically-grounded criterion that allows targeting bans on exports to a sanctioned country at the level of ~5000 6-digit HS products.
New rules for a challenged trading system: the role of safeguards
This chapter draws attention to the potential of safeguards in a system with a variable geometry. Section 1 considers the benefits from safeguards, but also the need to discipline their use.
US Immigration from Latin America in Historical Perspective
The share of US residents who were born in Latin America and the Caribbean plateaued recently, after a half century of rapid growth.
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