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Carol Graham What began as a roving conversation about the role of happiness in policy among a group of visiting academics (which I was lucky...

Molly Kinder In April 2020, I published a report calling on Congress to provide federally funded hazard pay for the country’s 50 million frontline essential workers. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2021/04/06/with-federal-aid-on-the-way-its-time-for-state-and-local-governments-to-boost-pay-for-frontline-essential-workers/

Louise Fox Articles about employment issues in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) often start by highlighting two widely accepted trends: Africa has a young labor force with high...

William H. Frey The systemic racism spotlighted over the past year in the wake of the death of George Floyd has long pervaded much of...

Kemal Kirişci Kemal Kirişci argues that the time is right to revisit the EU-Turkey Framework, and in particular, to adapt the Facility for Refugees in Turkey...

Speakers: Raj Kumar, Josh Kallmer, Cédric O, Barbara Angus, Sharan Burrow, Sean Doherty Digital trade has flourished in the pandemic even as governments enacted over 100 new digital taxes. How is...

Speakers: Christoph Wolff, Mekapati Goutham Reddy, Ofer Malka, Tom Plümmer, Shauna McIntyre Reduced emissions, increased efficiency and cheaper costs are just three reasons why shared, electric and autonomous mobility has...

Speakers: Nadia Hewett, Catherine Mulligan, Victor Manuel Muñoz Rodriguez, Debjani Ghosh, Robert Hedges Jr, Jan Vapaavuori Some 2,500,000,000,000,000,000 (2.5 quintillion) bytes of data are created each day, but inadequate governance protocols...

Speakers: Christoph Wolff, Yoshifumi Kato, Mariam Al Foudery, André Andonian, C.N. Ashwath Narayan The exponential increase of online shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic put unprecedented pressure on warehouse logistics and...