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Feb 26, 2025

The Religious Tourism Supply Chain Along the Sukkur–Multan Motorway in Pakistan: A Case Study

In this report, the authors examine the private and social effects that the 2019 opening of the Sukkur–Multan motorway in Pakistan has had on the two cities’ religious tourism sectors.
Commentary

Feb 18, 2025

Focus on the New Economy, Not the Old: Why China's Economic Slowdown Understates Gains

China's economy has slowed substantially. China is also the top global manufacturer, leading exports of many goods, investing heavily in high-tech sectors, and innovating rapidly. It's critical to avoid conflating an economically slowing China with an industrially and technologically weaker China.
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Jan 30, 2024

Guidelines for Conducting California Standardized Regulatory Impact Assessments

The authors review California's rulemaking process and guidelines for conducting standardized regulatory impact assessments for major regulations and provide guidance on methodologies and approaches for assessing the impacts of proposed regulations.
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Sep 29, 2023

Defence Industrial Power: Understanding the UK's Post-Brexit Role

This article explores the current challenges in UK foreign policy, particularly in regard to defence. It argues that the UK retains considerable potential post-Brexit, but faces several obstacles in developing its defence industrial power.
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Sep 2, 2022

The Gross Developmental Potential (GDP2): A New Approach for Measuring Human Potential and Wellbeing

The Gross Developmental Potential (GDP2) is proposed as a new capabilities-based framework for assessing threats to thriving and understanding progress in achieving lifelong health and wellbeing.
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Jul 7, 2022

Depressive Symptoms Among US Adults During the Great Recession and Economic Recovery

National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey data show a statistically significant increase in depressive symptoms from 2005/2006 to 2007/2008 (the beginning of the Great Recession), but there were no significant or consistent changes after 2007/2008.
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Jul 7, 2022

Diet Quality in the United States Improved During the Great Recession and Deteriorated During Economic Recovery

During the Great Recession, American diets became more consistent with Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommendations, possibly because of a shift toward food prepared at home instead of prepared food bought away from home.
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Nov 9, 2021

The Cost of Stress to UK Employers and Employees

This paper uses data from the Britain's Healthiest Workplaces survey to highlight the costs associated with stress and impaired wellbeing in the workplace and their implication for productivity and, by extension, the economic health of society.
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Dec 1, 2020

Estimating the Global Economic Benefits of Physically Active Populations Over 30 Years (2020–2050)

We assess the potential benefits of increased physical activity for the global economy for 23 countries and the rest of the world from 2020 to 2050. The main factors taken into account in the economic assessment are excess mortality and lower productivity.
Commentary

Aug 22, 2020

Too Interconnected to Fail

The 2007–08 financial crisis made regulators and lawmakers acutely aware that some financial institutions had become too big to fail. The next big economic crisis may arise outside the financial sector, in highly networked companies that are too interconnected to fail.
Commentary

Jul 13, 2020

Balancing Public Health and Economic Effects of Physical Distancing: Q&A with Jonathan Welburn

Jonathan Welburn, an operations researcher at RAND, has spent years studying how economic shocks ripple outward like a contagion through the economy. He recently helped develop an online tool that policymakers can use to manage the health and economic effects of COVID-19 interventions.
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Feb 3, 2020

Systemic Risk: It's Not Just in the Financial Sector

After a decade of focus on financial firms, new analysis using an innovative approach and new dataset shows that firms in a diverse range of sectors, such as technology and telecommunications, pose a systemic risk to the economy at large.

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The Religious Tourism Supply Chain Along the Sukkur–Multan Motorway in Pakistan: A Case Study

Focus on the New Economy, Not the Old: Why China's Economic Slowdown Understates Gains

Guidelines for Conducting California Standardized Regulatory Impact Assessments

Defence Industrial Power: Understanding the UK's Post-Brexit Role

The Gross Developmental Potential (GDP2): A New Approach for Measuring Human Potential and Wellbeing

Depressive Symptoms Among US Adults During the Great Recession and Economic Recovery

Diet Quality in the United States Improved During the Great Recession and Deteriorated During Economic Recovery

The Cost of Stress to UK Employers and Employees

Estimating the Global Economic Benefits of Physically Active Populations Over 30 Years (2020–2050)

Too Interconnected to Fail

Balancing Public Health and Economic Effects of Physical Distancing: Q&A with Jonathan Welburn

Systemic Risk: It's Not Just in the Financial Sector

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The Religious Tourism Supply Chain Along the Sukkur–Multan Motorway in Pakistan: A Case Study

Focus on the New Economy, Not the Old: Why China's Economic Slowdown Understates Gains

Guidelines for Conducting California Standardized Regulatory Impact Assessments

Defence Industrial Power: Understanding the UK's Post-Brexit Role

The Gross Developmental Potential (GDP2): A New Approach for Measuring Human Potential and Wellbeing

Depressive Symptoms Among US Adults During the Great Recession and Economic Recovery

Diet Quality in the United States Improved During the Great Recession and Deteriorated During Economic Recovery

The Cost of Stress to UK Employers and Employees

Estimating the Global Economic Benefits of Physically Active Populations Over 30 Years (2020–2050)

Too Interconnected to Fail

Balancing Public Health and Economic Effects of Physical Distancing: Q&A with Jonathan Welburn

Systemic Risk: It's Not Just in the Financial Sector

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