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Beyond VC: Financing technology entrepreneurship in the rest of America (Aia Sarycheva and Mark Muro, Brookings)

Regions across the country, striving to foster dynamic, diverse growth, are launching initiatives aimed at supporting the scale up of the technology and advanced-economy...

Industries without smokestacks in Tunisia: Creating jobs in tourism and ICT (Sami Mouley and Amal Nagah Elbeshbishi, Brookings)

Tunisia, like many African countries, is facing an influx of young people into its workforce, but the country doesn’t have enough jobs to absorb...

USAID’s local staff are an overlooked resource to advance locally led development (Justin Fugle, Brookings)

Last week’s House Foreign Affairs Committee Hearing on locally led development highlighted the bipartisan consensus about its numerous benefits. Subcommittee chairman Rep. Joaquin Castro...

Property tax compliance in Tanzania: Can nudges help? (Matthew Collin, Vincenzo Di Maro, David K. Evans, and Fredrick Manang, Brookings)

Low- and middle-income countries around the world struggle with low tax compliance together with limited capacity to enforce compliance. This paper reports the results...

Student outcomes at community colleges: What factors explain variation in loan repayment and earnings? (Cody Christensen and Lesley Turner, Brookings)

Community colleges play an important role in providing access to higher education and promoting economic mobility by offering postsecondary opportunities to a wide range...

Women, work, and families: Recovering from the pandemic-induced recession (Betsey Stevenson, Brookings)

More than a year and a half after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic brought the U.S. economy to a screeching halt, the employment...

Are Rules of the Game Possible in the Era of Nuclear Weapons? (Timofei Bordachev, Valdai Discussion Club)

The inglorious end of the US military intervention in Afghanistan (and in the Middle East) made it possible to speculate that the end of the domination of the Western powers in world affairs...

The Pandemic and International Migration: Exploiting the Healthcare Crisis to Reform Mobility Governance (Franck Düvell, Valdai Discussion Club)

It is remarkable that liberal and authoritarian states around the globe alike turned to ultra-radical policy measures and largely outlawed fundamental liberties including the right to leave one’s...

USA-Iran: Why Is the Deal Stalled? (Ivan Timofeev, Valdai Discussion Club)

It is not easy to isolate the nuclear programme from the general package of contradictions between the United States and Iran. At one time,...

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