Authors: Lakshmi Iyer, Eduardo Pagés
Keough School of Global Affairs, July 2022
In December 2021, US President Joe Biden faced the decision of whether to push forward with the Build Back Better Act (BBBA), which would increase US government spending by more than $2 trillion. Three previous spending bills had already been passed over the previous...
Topics: Business & Economics, COVID-19, Governance
Authors: Steve Reifenberg, Luke Maillie, Molly Kuehn, Jens Henrik Munthe-Kaas, Matthew Weyenberg
Keough School of Global Affairs, February 2022
The case, Improving Surgical Care in Zambia: Building a National Plan, examines how the government of Zambia developed the first in the world National Surgical, Obstetric, and Anaesthesia Plan (NSOAP) from 2015-2017. The Zambian government incorporated recommendations from the Lancet Commission on Global Surgery...
Topics: Health, Policy
Authors: Steve Reifenberg, Luke Maillie
Keough School of Global Affairs, May 2021
In rural Chiapas, Mexico, poor patients often struggle to accesss surgical care and other medical treatment, even though access is guaranteed by law under the Mexican constitution. This case examines an innovative approach developed by Compañeros en Salud to accompany patients from rural communities...
Topics: Health
Authors: Bhashkar Mazumder, Maria Rosales-Rueda, Margaret (Maggie) Triyana
Kellogg Institute, December 2020
We analyze the long-run and intergenerational effects of a large-scale school building project (INPRES) that took place in Indonesia between 1974 and 1979. Specifically, we link the geographic rollout of INPRES to longitudinal data from the Indonesian Family Life Survey covering two generations. We...
Topics: Business & Economics, Education, Health
