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US economic statecraft adrift as China seeks to join mega Asian trade deal (Joshua P. Meltzer, Brookings)

China’s decision to formally seek to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-pacific Partnership (CPTPP), the world’s most important Asian trade deal, presents the U.S....

G20 support for improved infrastructure project cycles in Africa (G20 Italia 2021)

Priyadarshi Dash Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) Paulo Esteves BRICS Policy Center Rob Floyd African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET) Arthur Minsat Development Center, Organization for Economic Co-operation...

Mapping rural America’s diversity and demographic change (DW Rowlands and Hanna Love, Brookings)

The release of 2020 Census population data provided much-anticipated insight into the demographic trends reshaping our nation, but it also unleashed a wave of...

The agonizing problem of Pakistan’s nukes (Marvin Kalb, Brookings)

“This is a new world,” President Joe Biden declared, when justifying his pullout from Afghanistan and explaining his administration’s war on global terrorism in an...

The contribution of human capital to economic growth. A cross-country comparison of Germany, Japan, and the United States (Martin Neil Baily, Barry P. Bosworth,...

Traditional growth accounting exercises, which adjust for variations in the age, gender, and educational attainment of the workforce, conclude that changes in human capital...

New approach needed to make digital data flow beneficial for all (UN News)

This should help maximize development gains and ensure that they are equitably distributed, said the agency, launching its Digital Economy Report 2021. A new approach should also enable worldwide data...

Addressing youth unemployment through industries without smokestacks: A Tunisia case study (Sami Mouley and Amal Nagah Elbeshbishi, Brookings)

Although the manufacturing sector is known to have a unique role in structural transformation, the industries without smokestacks (IWOSS) that include tradable services, and...

How worried should we be if the debt ceiling isn’t lifted? (Wendy Edelberg and Louise Sheiner, Brookings)

The debt limit caps the total amount of allowable outstanding U.S. federal debt. The U.S. hit that limit on August 1, 2021, but the...

On Russia’s Obstructionism at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (US Department of State)

PRESS STATEMENT ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE Yesterday, the premier human rights conference of the Europe-Eurasia region should have opened in Warsaw, Poland.  Unfortunately, the...

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