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Quintus Lim
Quintus Lim is an Associate Director of policy and programs at the Milken Institute.
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Kara Whelply
Kara Whelply is an Associate Director, MI Philanthropy. She works on the Center’s biomedical rese
arch team, where she advises individual philanthropists on therapeutic development with methods to identify, fund, and accelerate treatments.
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Exploring the Role of Microbusinesses in Economic Growth and Recovery for US Cities
The Milken Institute’s 2021 Best-Performing Cities (BPC) index compares the recent perfor
mance of metro areas with a focus on job growth, wage growth, and high-tech GDP growth.
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Solving the Philanthropist's Dilemma
Philanthropic capital has played and will continue to play a critical role as we rebuild after the
pandemic.
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Supporting the Growth of California's Life Sciences Industry
The life sciences are a cornerstone of technological innovation in California.
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Best-Performing Cities 2023: Thriving in a Changing Economic Landscape
The Milken Institute’s annual Best-Performing Cities (BPC) rankings provide an objective framework
for evaluating the relative performance of US cities.
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Optimizing Small Business: Technical Assistance with Nudges
The Milken Institute conducted a pilot project exploring ways to improve the efficacy of small busi
ness technical assistance programs through the application of behavioral science intervention known as a “nudge” (Thaler and Sunstein 2008).
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Common Sense from Uncommon Investors
With the emergence of rapidly rising interest rates and the resultant global recession fears, no
w is the time to remind investors about the cyclical nature of financial markets. Should managers batten down the hatches?
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Policy Pathways to Addressing Wealth Inequality
The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing recession has exacerbated longstanding inequities in the U.S.,
including the stark gaps in economic opportunity across the population. The bottom 50% of American families share only 1.5% of U.S.
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