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USA – COVID-19 is crushing red states. Why isn’t Trump turning his rallies into mass vaccination sites? (Brookings)

Elaine Kamarck writes: Politicians almost always act in their own electoral interest. This sounds bad except that much of the time that means that...

Washington Consensus Reforms/Sub Saharan Africa – Washington Consensus Reforms and Lessons for Economic Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa (American Economic Association, Brookings)

Belinda Archibong, Brahima Coulibaly, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala write: Over three decades after market-oriented structural reforms termed "Washington Consensus" policies were first implemented, we revisit the...

USA – Lessons from the Surfside condo collapse on strengthening community ownership (Brookings)

Tracy Hadden Loh writes: The June collapse of the Champlain Towers South multifamily condominium tower in Surfside, Fla. has called into question whether bad governance played a role...

Kenya – Unlocking constraints to industries without smokestacks to catalyze job creation for youth in Kenya (Brookings)

Adan Shibia, Eldah Onsomu, and Boaz Munga write: Unlike in much of the developed world, the promise of manufacturing to spur economic growth and jobs in...

Global Education – How teacher expectations empower student learning (Brookings)

Niharika Gupta and Sameer Sampat write: In primary school, we were both lucky to have teachers who thought we were brilliant: Ms. Darrow believed Sameer was...

USA – ‘40 acres and a mall’: How community ownership models can preserve economic power in Black neighborhoods (Brookings)

Anthony Barr, Tracy Hadden Loh, Andre M. Perry, and Hanna Love write: In the famous post-Civil War initiative known as “40 acres and a mule,” Union General...

Sustainable Development/SDGs – Donor engagement with Agenda 2030: How government agencies encompass the Sustainable Development Goals (Brookings)

George Ingram and Helena Hlavaty write: In 2015, all members of the United Nations adopted an ambitious agenda known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also...

USA – Supporting distressed communities by strengthening regional public universities: A federal policy proposal (Brookings)

Robert Maxim and Mark Muro writes: Forecasters predict the economy will grow significantly in the latter half of 2021 as the U.S. continues its recovery from...

Sustainable Development/SDGs – How government donors engage with the Sustainable Development Goals (Brookings)

George Ingram writes: In 2015, 193 nations signed on to Agenda 2030 setting forth the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The predecessor Millennium Development Goals...

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