UPCOMING EVENT
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
2:30 PM to 3:45 PM
Washington, DC
In his new book, Stephen Green explores how the global financial sector could respond to the current crisis in a way that aligns our human desires with our spiritual and psychological needs. On February 16, Green will join Senior Fellow E.J. Dionne, Jr. to share his insights on money and morality in the context of today's increasingly interdependent world economy. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Nathan Hultman, February 09, 2010, The Brookings Institution
The fifth anniversary of the Kyoto Protocol is approaching. While many view its efforts as a failure, Nathan Hultman believes it leaves a legacy of experience and discusses three interlinked components of climate policy that would be important for any future interational climate change agreement. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Ted Piccone, February 03, 2010, Current History
In the face of a widespread economic downturn, many Latin American countries are considering organizational changes, including stronger governments. Ted Piccone evaluates the region’s political and financial climate, arguing that the current economic crisis could have substantial negative implications for the future of democracy throughout Latin America. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mwangi S. Kimenyi, February 03, 2010, The Brookings Institution
For the last few years, Somalia has held the top spot in both the Index of Failed States and the Fragile States Index. Mwangi Kimenyi discusses the number of factors that make Somalia an increasingly volatile country and urges for a broad international mandate to build a new state. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Carol Graham, January 30, 2010, VoxEU.org
What measures of human wellbeing are the most accurate benchmarks of economic progress and human development? Carol Graham presents new research suggesting that while people can adapt to be happy at low levels of income, they are far less happy when there is uncertainty over their future wealth. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Raj M. Desai and James Raymond Vreeland, January 26, 2010, The Brookings Institution
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, global cooperation is at the top of the agenda. As the governance of international organizations is at odds with the global distribution of economic power, this goal for Davos could prove difficult. Brookings expert Raj Desai and Georgetown University Professor James Raymond Vreeland discuss global governance issues among economic institutions and urge that regional organizations might be the best path for economic governance. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Arvind Panagariya, January 25, 2010, The Brookings Institution
On the eve of India's 60th anniversary as a republic, Arvind Panagariya reflects on the country's economic accomplishments. As an economy that showed remarkable resilience to the recent global financial crisis, India is still in need of economic reform to sustain and accelerate the pace of growth and poverty alleviation. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Mauricio Cárdenas and José Tessada, January 22, 2010, The Brookings Institution
Haiti continues to grapple with the disastrous effects of the earthquake. As the relief operations begin to provide essential life support, other problems will emerge. Mauricio Cárdenas and José Tesada discuss the country's critical need for governance and state capacity, urging that Haiti's reconstruction should favor income generation and institution-building. Read More
PAST EVENT
Thursday, January 21, 2010
2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Washington, DC
In What Works in Development? (Brookings Press, 2009), Brookings Nonresident Fellow Jessica Cohen and Nonresident Senior Fellow William Easterly bring together leading experts to address one of the most basic yet vexing issues in development: what do we really know about what works—and what doesn't—in fighting global poverty? On January 21, the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings hosted a discussion on these fundamental global development questions with the book’s editors. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Homi Kharas, January 21, 2010, The Brookings Institution
The recent earthquake in Haiti caused a staggering number of casualties, with the greatest loss of life and destruction in the poorest areas of the capital, Port-au-Prince. Homi Kharas highlights three valuable lessons from the recovery effort after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami that can be applied to the current rebuilding efforts in Haiti. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Daniel Kaufmann, January 21, 2010, The Brookings Institution
Senior Fellow Daniel Kaufmann confronts the orthodoxy on the rule of law by reflecting on three distinct circumstances that converge on a common development theme: billions of dollars of ineffective donor aid. He also stresses the need to learn from the lessons of past donor aid missteps in the now-devastated-Haiti. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Daniel Kaufmann, January 21, 2010, The Brookings Institution
Senior Fellow Daniel Kaufmann challenges the orthodoxy on the rule of law by reflecting on three distinct circumstances that converge on a common development theme: billions of dollars of ineffective donor aid. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Kemal Derviş and Eswar Prasad, January 14, 2010, The Brookings Institution
In this installment of the Status Report, a series of policy assessments of the Obama administration's first year, Kemal Derviş and Eswar Prasad give President Obama a B+ for what the new administration accomplished on economic policy during the global financial crisis, but temper the high grade with an incomplete for the big tasks that lie ahead. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Paul Blustein, January 13, 2010, Foreign Policy Magazine
After eight painful years of standstill and failure, the Doha talks might collapse once and for all in 2010. Paul Blustein discusses the critical link between the World Trade Organization and Doha, and how this collapse could mark the death of the global trade system as we know it. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jian Zhang, January 08, 2010, The Brookings Institution
The 2008-2009 recession has shaken Asian exporting nations’ reliance on the U.S. market, and intra-Asian trade is increasing. CNAPS Visiting Fellow Jian Zhang writes that China and the Republic of Korea appear to be moving toward free trade negotiations, which would increase their bilateral trade and would have implications for the United States, Japan, Taiwan, and others. Read More