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The Bangladesh Public Administration Project’s 2024 pedagogy fellows use the case method to equip the next generation of civil servants to meet Bangladesh’s development goals.
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The Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia is pleased to announce the publication of Institutional Change and Adaptive Efficiency: A Study of China’s Hukou System Evolution.
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Biden helps deliver Kennedy School research documenting possible sites of Vietnamese soldiers’ remains during historic visit to Hanoi
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In China’s Most Generous: Examining Trends in Contemporary Chinese Philanthropy, Edward Cunningham and Yunxin Li collected data on more than 17,000 donations made in China in 2020 as part of a long-running examination of Chinese philanthropic donors and recipients.
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Massachusetts state representatives Tackey Chan and Tram Nguyen on the importance of Asian American representation in state government.
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In a visit to the Kennedy School, the country’s first Cambodian American mayor argues that there has never been a better time for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to run for office.
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Speaking at Harvard Kennedy School, Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen MC/MPA 1979 noted that the country plans to be poverty free by 2041. Yet challenges—like climate change and rising fuel costs—loom large.
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In a new essay, Hai Nguyen draws on oral histories to reflect on the 50th anniversary of the Paris Peace Accords. Nguyen reminds us of the question many are still asking a half-century later: When foreign powers withdrew from Vietnam, why did compatriots still fight to the death?
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Historian Fredrik Logevall discusses why the agreement that ended U.S. involvement in Vietnam never led to the promised “peace with honor”
