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SPOTLIGHT: Economic Mobility


Reuters/Kevin Lamarque - U.S. President George W. Bush signs H.R. 5140, the Economic Stimulus Act of 2008, Washington, DC

Save to My Portfolio Economic Stimulus Act: Hard to Kill Two Birds with One Stone

Ron Haskins, Summer 2008

The bipartisan economic stimulus package was a straightforward application of Keynesian fiscal policy: Spend your way out of recession. However, some might wonder if it’s possible to design a stimulus package that could also reduce inequality. In this paper, Ron Haskins explains why targeted stimulus may reduce poverty in the short run but cannot substitute for investments that will reduce inequality in the long run. Read More

Economic Mobility, Inequality, Fiscal Policy, U.S. Economic Growth, Welfare

Spotlight: Aid


Reuters/Bruno Domingos - Children pose in Guaribas city, northeastern Brazil.

Save to My Portfolio Accra Agenda for Action: Old Promises, New City

Homi Kharas, August 27, 2008

Following the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, the High Level Forum will resume for its third gathering in Accra, Ghana on September 2, 2008. Homi Kharas examines the coordination of development aid and the addition of new donors since the Paris Declaration and questions whether this Forum’s ministerial declaration of an Accra Agenda for Action can provide improvements to the $170 billion aid system. Read More

Foreign Aid, Development, Developing Countries, Global Poverty, Global Economics

SPOTLIGHT: China


Reuters/Nao Nakanishi - A plant which will produce oil from coal, known as coal-to-liquid (CTL), nears completion in Erdos, in China's Inner Mongolia region, April 2008.

Save to My Portfolio China’s Energy Policies and Their Environmental Impacts

Erica S. Downs, August 13, 2008

In testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, Erica Downs outlined China's energy policymaking reforms and how they are unlikely to substantially improve energy governance.  She also discussed the implications of these changes for the United States.  Read More

China, Energy, Energy Security, Environment, Environmental Regulation

OPPORTUNITY 08: INDEPENDENT IDEAS FOR OUR NEXT PRESIDENT

Save to My PortfolioCandidate Issue Index: Transportation

Robert Puentes, August 26, 2008, The Brookings Institution

Candidate Issue Index: TransportationRobert Puentes presents the presidential candidates' positions on transportation issues, including federal transportation financing, telecommuting and public transit. This chart is part of a series of issue indices to be published during the 2008 presidential election cycle. Read More

WOLFENSOHN CENTER FOR DEVELOPMENT

Save to My PortfolioThe California Consensus: Can Private Aid End Global Poverty?

Raj M. Desai and Homi Kharas, August-September 2008, Survival, vol. 50, no. 4 (August-September 2008)

The California Consensus: Can Private Aid End Global Poverty?The rise of private aid donors—foundations, NGOs, corporations, and individuals—is changing the landscape of development assistance. As private aid has doubled within the past decade, the developing world welcomes these new players, and Raj Desai and Homi Kharas argue that they have the potential to be more effective in ending global poverty than the traditional bilateral and multilateral aid agencies. Read More

GLOBAL ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT

Save to My PortfolioDoha: The Last Mile

Jagdish Bhagwati and Arvind Panagariya, August 21, 2008, The New York Sun

Doha: The Last MileArvind Panagariya, a nonresident senior fellow in Brookings's Global Economy and Development program, and Jagdish Bhagwati, an economics professor at Columbia University, discuss issues surrounding the recent collapse of the Doha Round and the strides WTO director general Pascal Lamy is taking to salvage a successful trade deal. Read More

GLOBAL ECONOMY AND DEVELOPMENT

Save to My PortfolioDoha Trade Talks Collapse: What’s Next for Global Trade?

Paul Blustein, August 20, 2008, The Brookings Institution

Doha Trade Talks Collapse: What’s Next for Global Trade?Negotiations in the Doha Round of global trade talks broke down July 29 at the World Trade Organization’s headquarters in Geneva. Paul Blustein discusses the WTO’s centrality to the global trading system, warns that erosion of its authority would endanger the system’s stability, and challenges the United States to halt the pursuit of further bilateral and regional trade agreements, as those pacts threaten to undermine multilateralism. Read More

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