At least one of every seven children in Maryland lives in poverty. A new analysis says the real number might be higher — maybe one in every five children. Whatever […]
News & Announcements Archive
Meredith Greif on the Clumsy Regulation of Rented Homes
Meredith spent two years interviewing more than 100 landlords to learn why they treat tenants the way they do and how the system could improve for both.
Landlord Regulation and Unintended Consequences with Meredith Greif
How do we respond when regulations intended to help vulnerable tenants end up disadvantaging them even further? Professor Greif asks us to consider the trade-offs inherent in many of our […]
Rina Agarwala in The Washington Post
Is the New UK Prime Minister a Paragon of Immigrant Success? Rishi Sunak credits his hard-working family for the foundations of his career. But government policies may play a bigger […]
Rina Agarwala in the Washington Post
Is the new U.K. prime minister a paragon of immigrant success?Rishi Sunak credits his hard-working family for the foundations of his career. But government policies may play a bigger role […]
Ho-fung Hung featured in JHU Arts & Sciences Weekly
Describe your primary research or scholarship, and tell us what is most exciting about your current project.One major focus of my research has been how the rise of China reshapes […]
Inflation is Making Homelessness Worse
“We’re in a very precarious moment, where the cost of living is going up so quickly — through the price of gas and food and rent — that more people […]
Congratulations to Graduate Student Samantha Agarwal
Samantha was selected to receive a fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies for 2022-2023. The Selection Committee reviewed an extremely competitive field of proposals and was only able […]
Expert Witness for the Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Ho-Fung Hung, Henry M. and Elizabeth P. Wiesenfeld Professor in Political Economy & Chair, on How China Uses Economic Coercion to Silence Critics and Achieve its Political Aims Globally.
Congratulations to Lingxin Hao
Congratulations on the appointment to the Benjamin H. Griswold III Professorship in Public Policy, approved by the Executive Committee of the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees.