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written by Shamil Ibragimov, discusses how Kyrgyzstan, facing significant challenges from climate change, can leverage decentralized power generation—particularly solar energy—to secure its energy future. It highlights the country's vulnerability due to its reliance on hydropower, which is threatene...

Professors Tavneet Suri and Esther Duflo recently participated in a fireside chat at the MIT Sloan Women’s Conference.

Hint: They Involve food.

The COVID-19 pandemic damages the U.S. and the world economy and puts policymakers in an unfamiliar dilemma. Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) such as social distancing slow the spread of [...]

On July 1, 2016, the U.S. territory, which has been mired in a years-long debt crisis, failed to make good on $2 billion of bond payments due, triggering the worst default in its history. Puerto Rico’s governor Alejandro García Padilla has defended the decision to skip the full payment, emphasizing ...

Federal credit program managers and other subject area experts from government, industry, and academia took part in a recent conference co-sponsored by the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy […]

Given infrastructure’s integral role in enabling high-functioning economies around the world and the concern that the pace of investment is not keeping up with the need for it, I have recently begun to focus my research on the consequences of different approaches to...

High rates of debt growth by local governments are a cause for concern in any country. In China, where recent turmoil in the equity and foreign-exchange markets has put a spotlight on that country’s economy and growth prospects, increasing levels of borrowing by provincial and other lower levels of ...

On October 4, 2018, the MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy Distinguished Speaker Series, the MIT Department of Economics, the Sloan Finance and Policy Club, and the Undergraduate Economics Association hosted a public lunchtime lecture and Q&A with Mervyn King, Lord King of Lothbury, KG, GBE, FB...

Changing Economic and Policy Environments for the World’s Largest Financial Institution