Tag: Brookings

How digital transformation is driving economic change (Zia Qureshi, Brookings)

We are living in a time of exciting technological innovations. Digital technologies are driving transformative change. Economic paradigms are shifting. The new technologies are...

Energy trilemma causes a headache for Germany’s new leaders (Constanze Stelzenmüller, Brookings)

Annalena Baerbock, Germany’s foreign minister, met her counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Tuesday, after a visit to Kyiv the day before. Arguably, a...

Breakthrough: The promise of frontier technologies for sustainable development (Homi Kharas, John McArthur, and Izumi Ohno, Brookings)

What breakthrough technologies have the potential soon to affect the human condition at a substantial scale, with special emphasis on the economic, social, and...

Is the U.S. military’s futurism obsession hurting national security? (Amy J. Nelson and Alexander H. Montgomery, Brookings)

Amid a pandemic that was all but predicted by biosecurity experts, there has been an obsession with the kind of thinking that attempts to forecast...

Could 2022 be a year of hope for climate? (Wolfgang Fengler, Brookings)

The editors of this blog decided we should strike a hopeful note in 2022, so I thought I would write about climate change. I’m...

Biden’s nominees would bring diversity to the Fed—if they’re confirmed (Sarah A. Binder and Mark Spindel, Brookings)

President Biden has announced his roster to fill key vacancies on the Federal Reserve’s 7-seat Board of Governors. If confirmed by the Senate, Biden’s...

Treasury’s final American Rescue Plan guidance means it’s time for local leaders to invest in an inclusive future (Alan Berube and Eli Byerly-Duke, Brookings)

Ten months after the passage of the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act (ARP), local officials across the United States continue to possess significant...

Toward a regional response to fragility, conflict, and violence in West Africa: ‘Think Regionally and Act Locally’ (Nicolas Perrin and Aly Rahim, Brookings)

The deteriorating security situation in some of West Africa’s most neglected and climate-vulnerable borderlands, such as the Lake Chad region or the Liptako-Gourma region,...

In vying for economic preeminence in Asia, openness is essential (Mireya Solís, Brookings)

At a time when borders and minds are shuttering, it is hard to make the case for openness to project leadership in Asia, the...

Inflation politics is clearer than inflation economics (William A. Galston and Elaine Kamarck, Brookings)

Ever since inflation reared its ugly head, economists have been arguing about whether it is a transitory problem or a structural problem, with some...

Success despite the odds: South Sudan and Bangladesh (Shanta Devarajan, Brookings)

We enter 2022 with trepidation. The COVID-19 pandemic is having another surge, thanks to the omicron variant, setting record-high infection rates. Civil wars and...

Why the FTC is telling companies to patch Log4j vulnerabilities (Riana Pfefferkorn, Brookings)

For cybersecurity workers, 2021 ended with a bang. On Dec. 9, a severe zero-day vulnerability was publicly disclosed in Log4j, a widely used Java...

How Aurora, Colorado is using mobile ‘public spaces’ to address the challenges of suburban social service delivery (Erica Dorn, Brookings)

There is perhaps no better metaphor to describe the clash of realities at play in America’s diversifying suburbs than the situation unfolding in Aurora,...

Assad’s normalization and the politics of erasure in Syria (Steven Heydemann, Brookings)

This March, Syria’s conflict will enter its 11th year, with no end in sight. As this bleak anniversary approaches, Syria’s economy has collapsed; narcotics trafficking...

Who has to leave the Federal Reserve next? (David Wessel, Brookings)

The Federal Reserve faces substantial turnover at the top over the next year and a half. President Joe Biden has three slots on the...

How countries are leveraging computing power to achieve their national artificial intelligence strategies (Samar Fatima, Gregory S. Dawson, Kevin C. Desouza, and James S....

Using finely tuned hardware, a specialized network, and large data storage, supercomputers have long been used for computationally intense projects that require large amounts...