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Nepal’s eroding judicial independence leaves Supreme Court in limbo (Bikram Timilsina, East Asia Forum)

Nepal’s Supreme Court is in crisis due to unprecedented protest from its justices and lawyers. Despite over a month of protests demanding the resignation of Chief...

The crucial need to secure the location data of vulnerable populations (Faine Greenwood, Brookings)

As the Taliban moved in on the Afghan capital of Kabul with unexpected speed earlier this year, foreign aid workers, diplomats, and military personnel...

How equity isn’t built into the infrastructure bill—and ways to fix it (Carlos Martín, Andre M. Perry, and Anthony Barr, Brookings)

By all measures, the $1.2 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) signed into law last month is a massive, once-in-a-generation outlay. But as...

The role of good governance in eradicating poverty and promoting development (Tamara White, Brookings)

According to former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, “good governance is perhaps the single most important factor in eradicating poverty and promoting development.” Indeed, as...

Does government debt increase after global recessions? (M. Ayhan Kose, Peter Nagle, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Naotaka Sugawara, Brookings)

Global government debt surged to nearly 100 percent of GDP during the global recession of 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic triggered a collapse in...

Debt tsunami of the pandemic (M. Ayhan Kose, Peter Nagle, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Naotaka Sugawara, Brookings)

Starting in 2010, a new wave of debt accumulation—the “fourth wave” of debt—had been underway in emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs, Figure 1)....

Inequitable fines and fees hurt vulnerable communities. Now, policymakers have an opportunity for reform (Tonantzin Carmona, Brookings)

As the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated economic insecurity for millions of people across the U.S., many cities instituted policies and programs aimed at providing some relief to...

What did the Fed do in response to the COVID-19 crisis? (Eric Milstein and David Wessel, Brookings)

The coronavirus crisis in the United States—and the associated business closures, event cancellations, and work-from-home policies—triggered a deep economic downturn. The sharp contraction and...

New centre-right government takes office in Czech Republic (Al Jazeera)

Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala‘s new centre-right government has taken office as it faces soaring inflation and energy costs, record budget deficits and the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. The...
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