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...This sudden vulnerability of emerging markets will be a key issue at the World Economic Forum on Europe and Central Asia, which begins on Oct. 30 in Istanbul. While Turkey has reason to blame its worsening economic outlook on the rest of the world, some of its woes are self-inflicted. The government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party (AKP) set about transforming the economy after its election in 2002. Spurred on by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which provided financial support during the 2001 crisis, the government pushed through strict budgets, monetary discipline...
...controversy began when the HHPR, which bills itself as a forum for original academic research, published an article by Donald C. Light, a professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. In the article, Light accused the editors of the Journal of Health Economic—three of whom are Harvard professors—of unethically censoring an article he wrote that was critical of the pharmaceutical industry...
...According to Allston/Brighton North Neighbors Forum member Tim McHale, the neighborhood’s opposition to the Charlesview plan is anything but your typical Not-In-My-Backyard obstructionism. The objections, McHale says, are over what the residents see as specific flaws in the design...
...location of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon’s speech at Harvard yesterday was ironically fitting; Ban spoke of the influence President John F. Kennedy ’40 had on his life while standing in the Institute of Politics forum bearing the president’s name. In his introduction of Ban, former Kennedy School dean Graham T. Allison ’62 recalled that he first met the South Korean native when he arrived at the Kennedy School as a Master of Public Administration student in 1983. “He shook my hand...
Former Senator Sam A. Nunn urged for a complete global disarmament of nuclear weapons at a speech Friday at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum before an audience that included former defense secretary Robert S. McNamara...