Browse Research and Commentary

The Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, The Environment and Climate Change

September 2013, Joshua Meltzer

Previewing the 2013 Brookings Blum Roundtable: The Role of the Private Sector in Ending Global Poverty

August 1, 2013, Laurence Chandy and George Ingram

Hedging, Thin Markets and Russia’s Future Oil

August 1, 2013, Barry W. Ickes

Royce/Engel Food Aid Reform Amendment to Farm Bill: The Perfect Combo, Saving More Lives with Fewer Dollars

June 19, 2013, George Ingram

Is an Aging Workforce Less Productive?

June 10, 2013, Gary Burtless

The Impact of Population Aging and Delayed Retirement on Workforce Productivity

May 2013, Gary Burtless

Good Things Grow in Scaled Packages: Africa's Agricultural Challenge in Historical Context

May 2013, John McArthur

U.S. Productivity Growth: An Optimistic Perspective

March 29, 2013, Martin Neil Baily, James M. Manyika and Shalabh Gupta

The Impact of the National Agricultural Advisory Services Program on Household Production and Welfare in Uganda

March 2013, Geofrey Okoboi, Annette Kuteesa and Mildred Barungi

A Cheerful Welcome to the Robots, Our Future Work Overlords

February 18, 2013, Scott Winship

Embrace Career Change, But Still Stand for Something

January 3, 2013, Robert C. Pozen

From Investment Management to Time Management

December 16, 2012, Robert C. Pozen

Exports and Export Diversification in Sub-Saharan Africa

December 2012, Vera Songwe and Deborah Winkler

Extreme Productivity: Taking Time to Make Time

December 10, 2012, Robert C. Pozen

Exercise Increases Productivity

October 24, 2012, Robert C. Pozen

Labor Strikes Are Becoming a Rising Concern across Africa

October 18, 2012, Anne W. Kamau

Skimming Your Way to 'Extreme Productivity'

October 15, 2012, Robert C. Pozen

The majority of companies believe you have to be there from 9 to 6 or 8 to 5. But it really doesn’t make sense to say a person who is in the office 40 hours a week is more productive than someone who is in the office 20 hours.

October 11, 2012, Robert C. Pozen, NBC's Today Show Online

Extreme Productivity: Boost Your Results, Reduce Your Hours

2012, Robert C. Pozen

How to Master the Art of Productivity

October 1, 2012, Robert C. Pozen

Financing for a Fairer, More Prosperous Kenya: A Review of the Public Spending Challenges and Options for Selected Arid and Semi-Arid Counties

August 2012, Kevin Watkins and Woubedle Alemayehu

The Republican leadership compromised just enough [on the debt ceiling] to make sure they got a deal done at the last minute, and if you were [willing to make a wager], you would probably say that’s what will happen again the next time around because they don’t want to be responsible for plunging the economy into chaos.

July 25, 2012, Philip A. Wallach, Voice of America

[America's political leaders] seem less interested in actually solving problems than in presenting some doctrinaire view that's not getting anything done. We now have parallel political universes that don't connect to one another, and it leaves voters confused.

July 11, 2012, Darrell M. West, CNN

Transportation Bill Is Critical for America’s Productivity and Competitiveness

June 26, 2012, Robert Puentes

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Extending the Learning Community: Rural Radio, Social Learning and Farm Productivity in Ghana

April 2012, Olumide Taiwo and Emmanuel Asmah