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Displacement and Migration Policies: Exploring the Interconnections

May 7, 2013

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This Week in Immigration: Senate Markup

May 7, 2013, Nicole Prchal Svajlenka

DOE’s Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative Leverages Regions

May 6, 2013, Scott Andes and Mark Muro

World Economic Forum on Africa: Delivering Africa’s Promise

May 6, 2013, Mwangi S. Kimenyi

[Rick] Snyder is one of the governors who most gets the economic importance of the city. Without Detroit, Michigan cannot recover.

May 5, 2013, Bruce Katz, Financial Times

Part of the emphasis on the economic relationship is also an attempt to change the perception in America about Mexico and Mexican immigrants.

May 2, 2013, Joshua Meltzer, National Journal

Unemployment Projected to Remain at 7.6 Percent for April, But Expected to Drop Faster in Near Future

May 2, 2013, Regis Barnichon

Emerging Nations and the Evolving Global Economy

May 2, 2013

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Obama’s Mexico Trip: Putting Trade and Investment at the Top of the Agenda

May 2, 2013, Diana Villiers Negroponte

President Obama's Trip to Mexico Emphasizes America's Future Economic Prosperity and Security

May 2, 2013, Diana Villiers Negroponte and Ted Piccone

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A Conversation on President Obama’s Trip to Mexico and Costa Rica

May 1, 2013, Joshua Meltzer, Diana Villiers Negroponte, Ted Piccone and Neil Ruiz

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This is a new world, this is a much more integrated American market than we’ve seen in the past. I think updating the American people on this reality is the main objective for the White House.

May 1, 2013, Joshua Meltzer, Washington Times

The bilateral relationship at least with Mexico has been dominated by drugs and violence. I think there is going to be a concerted effort here to refocus attention on the depth and size of the economic relationship.

May 1, 2013, Joshua Meltzer, New York Times

Africa Answers: Five Questions for Lawrence Bategeka about Uganda’s New Oil Law

May 1, 2013, Anne W. Kamau and Andrew Westbury

Can Egypt’s Transition and Economy Be Saved?

May 1, 2013, Hafez Ghanem

This Week in Immigration

April 29, 2013, Nicole Prchal Svajlenka

President Obama’s Visit to Mexico: Key Anti-Crime Issues

April 26, 2013, Vanda Felbab-Brown

Is Africa Rising or Not? A Discussion of Economic Opportunities and Development Challenges in Africa

April 25, 2013

Use of Term "Illegal" is Ignorant or Mischievous

April 23, 2013, Jane McAdam

The jobs that are growing fastest are jobs that don't pay very high wages. Lower-wage jobs are among the most suburbanized.

April 23, 2013, Elizabeth Kneebone, The Huffington Post

This Week in Immigration: A Bill Drops in a Frenetic Week

April 22, 2013, Nicole Prchal Svajlenka

Atlanta Can Flourish in Global Economy

April 22, 2013, Richard M. Daley and Bruce Katz

It wasn't long ago that Las Vegas was given up as dead — another sunburned city that had become the new Detroit. It was easy to write this city off.

April 21, 2013, Robert E. Lang, Los Angeles Times

The political conditions have been the best in a number of years to actually pass comprehensive [immigration] reform but the Boston events already are emboldening critics ... It's going to slow down the process and in D.C. anytime you slow down the process it creates openings for critics to try to torpedo the overall legislation.

April 19, 2013, Darrell M. West, Bloomberg

A Balancing Act for H-1B Visas

April 18, 2013, Neil G. Ruiz and Jill H. Wilson