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UNHCR responding to worst flooding in decades in South Sudan (UN News)

Weeks of heavy rain have caused unrelenting floods, affecting more than 700,000 people across the country, UNHCR Representative in the country Arafat Jamal said on Tuesday. The...

Myanmar: Three million in urgent need of life-saving assistance, protection (UN News)

Updating journalists at the daily media briefing in New York, Stéphane Dujarric cited humanitarians in saying that “conflict, food insecurity, natural disasters and COVID-19” have left some three million...

Yemen war reaches ‘shameful milestone’ – 10,000 children now killed or maimed (UN News)

That’s the equivalent of four children every day, UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said. Urging all parties to the conflict to stop the fighting, he added that “Yemen...

Rethinking India’s economic policy towards Vietnam (Kannan Reghunathan Nair, Phan Xuan Dung, East Asia Forum)

Since the upgrade of bilateral relations to a ‘Comprehensive Strategic Partnership’ in 2016, India–Vietnam strategic coordination has continued to deepen — as reflected through...

Why France and Germany won’t join China’s ‘Africa Quad’ (Lucas Engel, Reed Piercey, Deborah Brautigam, East Asia Forum)

Chinese President Xi Jinping invited the leaders of Germany and France to join a ‘quad’ of cooperation with African countries during a virtual summit...

Reimagining local public finance: Equitable reform of taxes, fines, and fees (Tonantzin Carmona, Brookings)

As a result of the American Recovery Plan Act (ARP), many cities and counties are seeking to make transformative investments while prioritizing equity in...

Understanding child-friendly urban design (Helen Shwe Hadani, Jennifer S. Vey, Shwetha Parvathy, and Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Brookings)

More than half of the world’s children are growing up in cities. By 2030, up to 60 percent of the world’s urban population will be...

Leveraging the Biden-Harris climate agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (Anthony F. Pipa and Kaysie Brown, Brookings)

In November, at the COP26 U.N. Climate Change Conference, the U.S. will join the community of nations keeping alive the promise to meet the...

How pandemic-era fiscal policy affects the level of GDP (Louise Sheiner, Sophia Campbell, Manuel Alcalá Kovalski, and Eric Milstein, Brookings)

Fiscal policy, including both automatic stabilizers and pandemic-related tax and spending legislation, played a significant role in cushioning the blows to the economy of...

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