Tag: The Science of Where Magazine

USA – How can the retirement system help more people afford retirement? (Brookings)

William G. Gale, David C. John, and J. Mark Iwry write: You don’t have to be a mechanic to drive a car, and you shouldn’t have...
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Middle East/North Africa/Pandemic – COVID-19 vaccination efforts in the Middle East and North Africa (Brookings)

Paul Dyer, Isaac Schaider, and Andrew Letzkus write: Since multiple vaccines for COVID-19 became available at the end of 2020, countries across the world have struggled...
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Tunisia – Tunisia, democracy, and the return of American hypocrisy (Brookings)

Shadi Hamid writes: Governments, even democratic ones, are often ineffective or simply bad. Elections sometimes produce uninspiring results, particularly when a patchwork of parties...
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Afghanistan – The power of technical and vocational skills: Increasing girls’ participation in formal agriculture education in Afghanistan (Brookings)

Nangyalai Attal writes: In March 2021, I visited an agriculture and veterinary institute (AVI) in northern Balkh province in Afghanistan. With state-of-the-art educational infrastructure...
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Uganda – The impact of COVID-19 on industries without smokestacks in Uganda (Brookings)

Madina M. Guloba, Medard Kakuru, and Sarah N. Ssewanyana write for Brookings: In Uganda, the spread of COVID-19 and its economic impacts gained momentum in March...
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Uganda – Employment creation potential, labor skills requirements, and skill gaps for young people: A Uganda case study (Brookings)

Madina M. Guloba, Medard Kakuru, Sarah N. Ssewanyana, and Jakob Rauschendorfer writes: Over the course of the last decade, Uganda’s economic growth has ranked among sub-Saharan Africa’s...
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USA – The housing challenges Virginia’s next governor will have to face (Brookings)

Jenny Schuetz writes: Communities across Virginia are facing a variety of housing-related stresses. Over the past year, housing prices have risen more than 10% in the...
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USA – What is swing pricing? (Brookings)

Anil Kashyap, Donald Kohn, and David Wessel write: In March 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., investors pulled more than $100...
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Europe – Europe needs a change in mindset on technology and geopolitics (ECFR)

Ulrike Franke writes: The European Union has been busy. It has just unveiled the world’s first plans to regulate artificial intelligence, an effort that has...
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USA/India – When two democracies talk (ORF)

Harsh V. Pant writes: United States (US) Secretary of State, Antony Blinken’s visit to India ended on a high note, despite initial suggestions in...
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India – Assam’s quest: En route to becoming one of the top five states in economic growth (ORF)

ROUHIN DEB writes: The largest state in the Northeast with an area of 78,438 square kilometre and a sizeable population of 3.2 crores, Assam...
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USA/Afghanistan – The US has no feasible strategy to protect its diplomats in Afghanistan (Observer Research Foundation)

Saaransh Mishra writes: Most American combat troops have now left Afghanistan, with the remaining scheduled to depart by the end of August. Amongst a...
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China/Afghanistan – China sees both an opportunity and a threat in Afghanistan (ORF)

KABIR TANEJA writes for ORF: China’s foreign minister Wang Yi recently hosted a delegation of the Taliban, led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in...
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Chechnya’s Veteran Fighters – Chechnya’s Veteran Fighters Have Their Backs to the Wall (The Jamestown Foundation)

Aslan Doukaev writes: In two battlegrounds 1,500 kilometers apart, veteran Chechen freelance fighters are being rebuked by those with whom they aligned against a...
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Russia – Russian Communists Try to Control Popular Discontent (The Jamestown Foundation)

Kseniya Kirillova writes: In the run-up to September’s legislative elections to the State Duma (lower chamber of the Russian parliament), the Communist Party of...
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Russia – Putin’s Paranoia, More Than Nuclear Weapons and Oil, Make Russia Dangerous (The Jamestown Foundation)

Pavel K. Baev writes: The remarks by United States President Joseph Biden at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence last week (July...
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