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Reuters/Hyungwon Kang - U.S. Senators Boxer and Kerry participate in a news conference to discuss Kerry-Boxer bill on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Save to My Portfolio The Senate Climate Wrangle Begins

Mark Muro and Sarah Rahman , October 01, 2009

Senators Kerry and Boxer recently unveiled their climate bill calling for the creation and funding of a string of energy innovation hubs that are dedicated to clean energy technology development and deployment. Mark Muro and Sarah Rahman reviewed the bill—especially as it impacts metro and regional areas—and noted its similarities and differences with the House of Representative's climate bill, Waxman-Markey. Read More

Energy Security, Competitiveness, U.S. Congress, Environmental Regulation, U.S. Department of Energy

SPOTLIGHT: Competitiveness


Reuters/Morris MacMatzen - Workers stand by to mount the propeller as crane lifts it to the top of a power-generating windmill turbine.

Save to My Portfolio To Make Clean Energy Cheaper, U.S. Needs Bold Research Push

Mark Muro and Teryn Norris, April 30, 2009

Mark Muro and Teryn Norris urge policy-makers to move innovation and commercialization to the fore of America’s outdated energy policy. They advocate creating regional energy partnerships—or e-DIIs—to accelerate the development of reasonably priced alternative energy technologies and bring them to the marketplace. Read More

Competitiveness, Information Technology, Energy Security, Innovation, Technology

SPOTLIGHT: Competitiveness

Save to My Portfolio Strengthening American Competitiveness: Regaining Our Competitive Edge

Jason Bordoff, Lael Brainard, Carola McGiffert and Isaac Sorkin, February 12, 2009

As U.S. policy-makers focus on how to strengthen the U.S. economy in the midst of the financial crisis, Brookings competitiveness experts stress the need for a longer-term view with policy priorities focused on how to rebuild American competitiveness through investments in people, infrastructure, ideas and green transformation. Read More

Competitiveness, U.S. Economy, U.S. Economic Growth, Global Financial Crisis, Infrastructure

SPOTLIGHT: Trade


Reuters/Gary Cameron - A steel girder is signed at the new Washington Nationals stadium.

Save to My Portfolio Buy American?: Global Considerations for the Proposed Stimulus Plan Clause

Eswar Prasad, February 03, 2009

The final version of the fiscal stimulus plan weakened the "Buy American" provision requiring the use of only U.S. iron and steel in construction work funded by the bill. Nevertheless, business groups continue to criticize the provision. In a new Q&A, Eswar Prasad discusses global concerns. Read More

Trade, Global Economics, U.S. Economy, Fiscal Policy, U.S. Economic Stimulus

FEATURED PROGRAM: Forum Index


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Save to My Portfolio Schwartz Forums on U.S. Competitiveness

The most recent Bernard L. Schwartz Forum on U.S. Competitiveness was a public symposium that explored the challenges and opportunities for new infrastructure investment. Schwartz, retired chairman of the board and chief executive officer of Loral Space & Communications, wanted the forums to serve as a platform for broad public discussion. The first forum, held in April 2006, opened with a discussion on U.S. education, innovation and research and development; the second forum addressed America’s standing in the field of science and technology as it relates to economic competitiveness. Read More

UPCOMING EVENT

Save to My PortfolioNo Reader Left Behind: Improving Media Coverage of Education

Wednesday, December 02, 2009
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Washington, DC

No Reader Left Behind: Improving Media Coverage of EducationThe American educational system is fundamental to promoting social and economic mobility, civic engagement and global competiveness, but the subject of receives less media coverage than other major public policy issues. On December 2, Grover "Russ" Whitehurst and E.J. Dionne, authors of The Disappearance of Education News, will present their solutions for improving education reporting and promoting quality discourse. Read More

Education, Media & Journalism, Economic Mobility, Competitiveness, U.S. Department of Education

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioMetropolitan Las Vegas: Challenges, Opportunities, and a Vision

Mark Muro and Robert E. Lang, September 08, 2009, University of Nevada Las Vegas

In speeches delivered at the Las Vegas roll-out of the Brookings Mountain West Initiative Mark Muro and nonresident senior fellow Robert Lang argue that Las Vegas presents an exaggerated version of America’s economic quandary. Muro declares that Las Vegas presents, in extreme form, some of the fundamental questions facing the whole country as it faces a major economic “reset” while Lang contends it can still emerge as America’s next true world city. Read More

Competitiveness, Regions and States, U.S. Economic Growth, Intermountain West

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe Structure of the U.S. Economic Statistical System: Implications for Public Policy

Andrew Reamer, August 19, 2009, International Statistical Institute conference Durban, South Africa

At the biennial International Statistics Institute conference in Durban, South Africa, Andrew Reamer said that the federal economic statistical system has been too narrowly focused on meeting the data needs of macroeconomic policymakers, to the detriment of other data users, particularly those at the regional level. Read More

U.S. Census, Competitiveness, Regions and States

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Save to My PortfolioClimate Change, Trade, and Competitiveness: Is a Collision Inevitable?: Brookings Trade Forum 2008/2009

Isaac Sorkin and Lael Brainard, July 31, 2009

Brookings Trade Forum provides comprehensive analysis on current and emerging issues of international trade and macroeconomics. Practitioners and academics contribute to each volume, with papers that provide an in-depth look at a particular topic. The 2008/2009 edition focuses on climate policy and its impact on trade. Read More

Climate Change, Trade, Globalization, Global Economics, Competitiveness

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioNext on Climate: Improve Waxman-Markey Innovation Provisions in Senate

Mark Muro, June 29, 2009, The Brookings Institution

Following a narrow House vote on Friday to pass climate change legislation, President Obama called on the Senate this weekend to follow suit. Mark Muro urges an even greater investment in energy innovation to catalyze a radically cleaner future. Read More

Energy Security, Climate Change, Innovation, Competitiveness, Technology and Development

PAST EVENT

Save to My PortfolioThe Scouting Report: Clean Energy Innovation

Wednesday, June 03, 2009
12:30 PM to 01:30 PM
Washington, DC

In the June 3 edition of the Scouting Report live web chat, Brookings policy expert Mark Muro and Politico senior editor Fred Barbash discussed how "The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009" is more than just a cap-and-trade bill. The bill has significant components dedicated to energy innovation and clean energy technology development and deployment. Read More

Energy Security, Climate Change, Innovation, Technology and Development, Competitiveness

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioWaxman-Markey: What About Innovation?

Mark Muro, May 26, 2009, The Vine, The New Republic

The climate change bill now winding its way through the House of Representatives has significant components dedicated to energy innovation and clean energy technology development and deployment. However, Mark Muro argues, funding the Department of Energy’s budget request for innovation would more immediately establish American alternative energy leadership. Read More

Energy Security, Climate Change, Innovation, Technology and Development, Competitiveness

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioTo Make Clean Energy Cheaper, U.S. Needs Bold Research Push

Mark Muro and Teryn Norris, April 30, 2009, Yale Environment 360

To Make Clean Energy Cheaper, U.S. Needs Bold Research PushMark Muro and Teryn Norris urge policy-makers to move innovation and commercialization to the fore of America’s outdated energy policy. They advocate creating regional energy partnerships—or e-DIIs—to accelerate the development of reasonably priced alternative energy technologies and bring them to the marketplace. Read More

Competitiveness, Information Technology, Energy Security, Innovation, Technology

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioPikes Peak as “Megapolitan” Space: A Federal Agenda for Prosperity in the Colorado Springs Metro Area

Robert E. Lang, Amy Liu and Mark Muro, April 07, 2009, Colorado College State of the Rockies Symposium

This year's State of the Rockies Symposium at Colorado College focuses on megapolitan areas—combinations of two or more regions into a single economic, social, and urban system. Amy Liu and Mark Muro of the Metro Program, and Robert Lang of Virginia Tech, delivered keynote addresses on how the Pike’s Peak region can leverage the federal role to help it better connect to Denver and the rest of the Front Range “mega" and boost its prosperity. Read More

Competitiveness, Regions and States, Sprawl, Sustainable Development, U.S. Economic Growth

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioSacramento's Transit-Oriented Development Plan a Model for the Nation

Christopher B. Leinberger, March 18, 2009, The Sacramento Bee

Chris Leinberger argues that Sacramento, the capital of one of the most hard-pressed states in the country, is an evolving model of development for metropolitan America. Read More

Transportation, Housing, Competitiveness, Cities, Walkable Urbanism

Competitiveness at Brookings

As emerging economies and existing powers seek competitive advantages, how can America retain its edge? If global integration is going be an enduring benefit for Americans—and receive their broad-based political support—the United States will need a sustained national agenda for remaining the world's most vibrant economy. Brookings’s institution-wide initiative on competitiveness integrates the global debate with developments at the local, state and federal levels.

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Competitiveness Save to My PortfolioSchwartz Forum on Competitiveness

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Featured Experts

Martin Neil Baily

Martin Neil Baily

Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
Bernard L. Schwartz Chair in Economic Policy Development

Martin Baily, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration (1999–2001) and one of three members of the council from 1994 to 1996, focuses on issues of globalization, productivity and competitiveness, Social Security reform, and U.S. economic policy.
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Bruce Katz

Bruce Katz

Vice President and Director, Metropolitan Policy Program
The Adeline M. and Alfred I. Johnson Chair in Urban and Metropolitan Policy

Bruce Katz, vice president and founding director of the Metropolitan Policy Program, regularly advises national, state, regional and municipal leaders on policy reforms that advance the competitiveness of metropolitan areas.
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Mark Muro

Mark Muro

Fellow and Policy Director, Metropolitan Policy Program

Mark Muro, a fellow and director of policy for the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, manages the program's public policy analysis and leads key policy research projects.
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ExpertAmy Liu

Amy Liu is deputy director of the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program. Her policy studies include economic competitiveness, metropolitan growth and development, governance reforms, urban reinvestment, and social equity.

ExpertSuzanne Maloney

Suzanne Maloney studies Iran, the political economy of the Persian Gulf and Middle East energy policy. A former U.S. State Department policy advisor, she has also counseled private companies on Middle East issues.

ExpertMark McClellan

Mark McClellan works on promoting high-quality, innovative and affordable health care. Once commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration and administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Dr. McClellan now directs the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform.

TopicEducation

The economic and political well-being of any society requires a well-educated citizenry. Brookings’s work extends beyond the K-12 bookends to include pre-school interventions, higher education and the challenges of education in developing countries.

ProgramGovernance Studies

Governance Studies explores political institutions of the United States and other democracies to assess how they govern, how their practices compare and how citizens and public servants can advance sound governance.

Research ProjectLatin America Initiative

The Latin America Initiative provides high-quality, in-depth, and independent research across a range of economic and political issues, and offers policy recommendations aimed at U.S. and Latin American policymakers.

ExpertIsabel V. Sawhill

A nationally known budget expert, Isabel Sawhill focuses on domestic poverty and federal fiscal policy. She is also co-director of the Center on Children and Families at Brookings.

TopicHealth Care

Brookings is committed to producing innovative policy solutions to our nation’s most difficult challenges. The country may face no more important domestic policy challenge than the much-needed reform of our health care system. Through an institution-wide effort, Brookings delivers new ideas and offers policy solutions to improve health care both at home and globally.

Policy CenterEngelberg Center for Health Care Reform

The Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform provides practical solutions to achieve high-quality, innovative, affordable health care with particular emphasis on identifying opportunities on the national, state and local levels.

ExpertDomenico Lombardi

As president of the Oxford Institute for Economic Policy, Domenico Lombardi’s work at Brookings focuses on the international financial crisis and the reform of the IMF and the World Bank. He is an expert on G-20 and G8 Summits.

ExpertFederiga Bindi

Federiga Bindi is a leading expert on European political integration. She has a broad experience in government and held a number of posts in international organizations. Bindi currently serves as an advisor to the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Her research focuses on the EU, transatlantic relations; EU states foreign policies, global governance issues.

Policy CenterCenter on Children and Families

The Center on Children and Families studies policies on the well-being of America's children and their parents and seeks a more effective means of addressing poverty, inequality and lack of opportunity in the United States.

ExpertMwangi S. Kimenyi

Mwangi S. Kimenyi is a senior fellow with the Africa Growth Initiative. He focuses on Africa's development, including institutions for economic growth, the political economy, and private sector development.

Research ProjectBrookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement

The Brookings-Bern Project on Internal Displacement monitors displacement problems worldwide, works with governments, regional bodies, international organizations and civil society to create more effective policies and institutional arrangements for Internally Displaed Persons.

ExpertTed Gayer

Ted Gayer is the co-director of the Economic Studies program and the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He conducts research on a variety of economic issues, focusing particularly on public finance, environmental and energy economics, housing, and regulatory policy.

ExpertVanda Felbab-Brown

Vanda Felbab-Brown focuses on the national security implications of illicit economies and strategies for managing them. She is an adjunct professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service.