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Best-Performing Cities 2016
Which factors are determining the divergence in economic performance of metropolitan areas around the nation? W...
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2016 California Summit Review: An Action Plan for Growth and Innovation
The Milken Institute’s fourth annual California Summit provided an opportunity to assemble prominent state lead...
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Shared-Use Mining Infrastructure: Why It Matters and How to Achieve It
For many countries in sub-Saharan Africa, the effective exploitation of natural resource wealth is vital to the...
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Strategies for Growing Pittsburgh’s Media Cluster
For decades, Pittsburgh has thrived as a regional entertainment media center, and as the setting for popular mo...
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Currency Manipulation Provisions Do Not Belong in Trade Agreements
Demands for provisions to stop currency manipulation by foreign governments have become central to the congress...
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Evaluation and Determinants of US Metro Economic Performance
The Milken Institute has published various reports evaluating urban performance. In addition to its flagship Be...
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State Health Inefficiencies
Despite spending more than any other country on health, the U.S. has a mediocre ranking across most health care...
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The Economic Impact of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy versus Out-of-Court Restructuring
Companies in financial distress and unable to make payments due to creditors often face an important choice: wh...
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Private Equity IPOs: Generating Faster Job Growth and More Investment
Private-equity firms have become an increasingly important source of funds for financing US companies. Private-...
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Accelerating Workforce Housing Development Across California
California has long had a shortage of affordable housing, most notably along the coast, around universities and...
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Preparing California for the Future of Work: Creating Equity by Addressing the Access Gap
This report focuses on how the public and private sector workforce systems in California have adapted to techno...
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Best-Performing Cities 2020: Where America’s Jobs Are Created and Sustained
About Best-Performing Cities
How did US regional economies perform recently? What are the key factors driving ...
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New-to-Export 101 - Strengthening the Capacity of U.S. Regional Economies to Export Abroad
In 2016, the Milken Institute launched New-to-Export 101, a program designed to increase the number of local ma...
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Best-Performing Cities 2018: Where America’s Jobs Are Created
The Milken Institute’s Best-Performing Cities U.S. index provides a way to measure which American metropolitan ...
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Building a Knowledge Economy—How Academic R&D Supports High-Tech Employment
Universities play an important role in determining a region’s capacity for innovation and to transform new idea...
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The Cost of Chronic Diseases in the U.S.
Americans chronic health problems and diseases not only come at the expense of individuals well-being, they als...
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Best-Performing Cities 2017: Where America’s Jobs are Created and Sustained
The Milken Institute’s Best-Performing Cities U.S. index provides a way to measure which American metros offer ...
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SMEs and Public Equity Financing: A New Dataset of SME Boards in Emerging-Market and Developing Economies
In recent years, a number of stock exchanges in emerging-market and developing economies have established dedic...
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Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises and SME Exchanges
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) play a vital role in generating economic growth in the world’s econom...
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Regional Performance Over Time Case Study: The Bend-Redmond, Ore. Metropolitan Statistical Area
How a region copes with economic challenges is as important to its long-term prosperity as how it grows in good...