Welcome to McKinsey Quarterly, the business journal of McKinsey & Company.
NOVEMBER 2004
To pay for the care of the elderly, developed societies face plummeting levels of public services for everyone else—and soaring taxes. Productivity could be the answer.
OCTOBER 2007
Ian Davis, managing director of McKinsey, talks about the public-sector productivity imperative.
JUNE 2006
Governments at all levels must deliver more for less. The principles of lean manufacturing offer surprisingly apt solutions.
JULY 2008
David Fisher talks about his experiences after he went from the private sector to the biggest organization in the US government.
FEBRUARY 2009
Here’s a plan that could solve the toxic-asset pricing problem voluntarily—without requiring Uncle Sam to nationalize the whole industry—and make (pretty much) everyone a winner.
DECEMBER 2008
Even many Western economists think China has discovered its own road to prosperity, dependent largely on state financing and control. They are quite wrong.
Making health care more affordable is the key to making the US system sustainable. We can bring three of the largest sources of underlying costs and their growth under control.
NOVEMBER 2008
Leon Panetta discusses how to make change happen, public–private partnerships and their effect on policy, and the major management challenges confronting the new administration.
China’s state-owned companies, like China itself, are diverse. Many of them would make better partners for multinationals than some of their private-sector counterparts. Openness, not ownership, is the key.
APRIL 2007
Public-private partnerships represent a significant opportunity for private investors—but pose worrisome risks as well.
FEBRUARY 2007
An estimate of the economic benefits of wireless activity must include not only wireless operators but also auxiliary players and end users.
A McKinsey Global Institute documentary probes the opportunities and policy choices posed by the biggest urbanization wave in history.
China’s cities are booming. Intelligent policies could make the good effects prevail over the bad ones.
APRIL 2008
Greenhouse gas emissions can be cut significantly—and, surprisingly, without huge disruption.
FEBRUARY 2008
Opportunities to invest in public infrastructure will increase during the next few years, but so will competition for deals.
MARCH 2007
Educational reform should focus on outcomes, not inputs.
A health care system's fundamental problems can be addressed if the decision makers recognize the interlocking nature of its elements.
Demand for energy is set to grow rapidly during the next 15 years—unless governments, businesses, and consumers take advantage of the many substantial, economically viable, and technologically proven opportunities to boost energy productivity.
Having helped to put India’s economy on the right track, Montek Singh Ahluwalia has now changed focus, to addressing problems with the country’s infrastructure and financial and educational systems.
Sheila Dikshit discusses the challenge of urban development in India.
The chairman of a commission set up to investigate Chile’s private-pension system explains that the goal now is to supplement rather than replace it.
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