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Small Business Policy and Innovation Initiative
Our Mission
Small businesses, employing half of all private-sector workers and contributing nearly
half of the US economic output, face challenges in formation and sustainability, posing risks to economic growth, job creation, and innovation o, How We Implement Our Mission
Conducting research and analysis to identify the key challenges small businesses face with a focus on driving change to benefit both traditional small businesses and start-ups
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Empowering Communities and Their Banks: Strategies for Enhancing Minority Depository Institutions
The Milken Institute, with support from The Rockefeller Foundation and JP Morgan Chase & Co., i
s excited to release its latest contribution to the national conversation on how to improve underserved communities.
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Priming SDG Markets: Can International Donors and Implementers Create An Impact Investment Pipeline?
Leveraging the power of markets is critical to fulfilling the bold ambitions of the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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The Role of a Duty to Serve in the Secondary Mortgage Market
A much-debated concept to support affordable housing is that of a duty to serve (DTS) policy, which
would impose an obligation on the secondary mortgage market institutions of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac or their successors to ensure that adequate lendin
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A Blueprint for Administrative Reform of the Housing Finance System
This paper sets out proposed administrative actions to reform the housing finance system in the abs
ence of legislation.
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Affordable Rent and Access to Homeownership: Refreshing the Debate in the Context of Housing Finance Reform
The continuing policy debate over restructuring the plumbing of the secondary mortgage market may u
ltimately prove to be the easy part—at least politically—of housing finance reform.
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Debt, Equity, and Free Money: How Local and State Governments Can Promote Minority Small Business Capital Access
This report explores how local and statewide governmental institutions can increase access to capit
al among Black and Hispanic entrepreneurs and small-businesses owners.
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RegTech: Opportunities for More Efficient and Effective Regulatory Supervision and Compliance
In response to the financial crisis of 2008 and subsequent wave of regulation, financial institutio
ns and regulators have begun to look for ways to use emerging technologies to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of regulatory compliance and super
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Guaranteeing the Goals: Adapting Public Sector Guarantees to Unlock Blended Financing for the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
In order for developing countries to meet the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),
the private sector and the countries themselves must be critical providers of funding to achieve the ambitious vision to end poverty, protect the planet,
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FinTech in Focus — May 28, 2024
In This Newsletter
The Rising AI Economy: A New Era in Tech
Reshaping Global Digital Innovation Sys
tems
The Future of Money
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Milken Institute Statement on the US House Passage of the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act
“The bipartisan passage of H.R.
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Milken Institute Inclusive Capitalism Initiative Celebrates Latest Class of HBCU Fellowship Program, Building on Its Commitment to Develop Pathways of Opportunity for Young Leaders
May 8, 2024 (Los Angeles, CA) —The Milken Institute today celebrated the latest class of its Histori
cally Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Fellowship program at its
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