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DECEMBER 5, 2024 |
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Harvard Kennedy School | | | |
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In his second administration, President Trump (above with Chinese President Xi Jinping) will once again shape U.S. policy toward China. (Photo by Kyodo/AP Images) | | |
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International Relations & Security |
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Understanding the next phase of US-China relations |
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From potential trade wars to waning global collaboration on climate change, the impact of a second Trump administration on U.S.-China relations could be enormous. In a new Q&A, Professor Tony Saich, director of the Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia at Harvard Kennedy School, talked about what the next four years might mean. Attitudes toward China have hardened in the United States, and a number of China hawks will likely occupy important roles in the new administration. But on issues ranging from trade to technology to Taiwan, a great deal depends, Saich said, “on which Trump turns up”—one open to deal-making or one set on confrontation.
Also read: Professor Rana Mitter on how China tariffs could backfire on the U.S.
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Social Policy |
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Benefits buffered workers from worst effects of joblessness during pandemic |
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When service sector employment fell by 15% during the early days of the pandemic, many hourly service workers faced increasing economic precarity and negative consequences for their health and well-being. The 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act expanded unemployment insurance programs, providing temporary financial assistance to unemployed workers. New research from scholars at the Shift Project—a joint research project between the Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy and the University of California, San Francisco—found that access to unemployment benefits mitigated some of the worst effects for these workers.
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Development & Economic Growth |
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Understanding private sector growth in emerging economies |
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Associate Professor Jie Bai’s research illuminates what hinders and what drives private sector growth in developing countries and regions, including China, East Africa, and Southeast Asia, where she also collaborates with policymakers to design, implement, and assess evidence-based policies. Barriers to growth vary across countries, as well as between industries in a single country. “As academic researchers, it is our responsibility to produce facts that go beyond hype and myth, to foster deeper policy dialogues grounded in rigorous evidence,” Jie says.
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