Brookings - Quality. Independence. Impact.

Women and children walk with their belongings near Baghouz, Deir Al Zor province, Syria February 12, 2019. Picture taken February 12, 2019. REUTERS/ Rodi Said - RC1B2727B0D0

The wrong decision on Hoda Muthana

Daniel L. Byman · Thursday, February 21, 2019

dollar bills

The Federal Budget

Don’t ignore the national debt. It will only get worse if we don’t act now

William G. Gale

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen speaks during a news conference after a two-day Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) policy meeting in Washington, U.S., September 20, 2017. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts - RC152544FA20

Podcast Episode

Janet Yellen on monetary policy, currencies, and manipulation

David Dollar and Janet L. Yellen

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Innovation districts

Technology & Innovation

Innovation districts and their dilemmas with place

Thursday, February 21, 2019

U.S. candidate in election for the next President of the World Bank David Malpass speaks at an event with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Op-Ed

Ending America’s World Bank monopoly

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Latest Research

Arrangement of various world currencies including Chinese Yuan, US Dollar, Euro, British Pound, shot January 25, 2011. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration/File Photo - S1AEUFNVHWAB

Report

New financial stability governance structures and central banks

Rochelle M. Edge and Nellie Liang

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Ambulances are parked outside the emergency room entrance at Mount Sinai West Roosevelt Hospital in New York

Health Care Policy

State approaches to mitigating surprise out-of-network billing

Loren Adler, Matthew Fiedler, Paul B. Ginsburg, Mark Hall, Erin Trish, Christen Linke Young, and Erin Duffy

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Lucia Mayta, 43, and her daughter Luz Cecilia, 12, pose for a photograph inside their bodega in La Paz February 24, 2014. Lucia studied until the fourth grade of primary school, and knows how to read and write and do basic math. Lucia runs a bodega, and the family live in a back room. She hopes to build a house in the future. Luz Cecilia is in seventh grade and wants to be a singer. On March 8 activists around the globe celebrate International Women's Day, which dates back to the beginning of the 20th century and has been observed by the United Nations since 1975. The UN writes that it is an occasion to commemorate achievements in women's rights and to call for further change. Picture taken February 24, 2014. REUTERS/David Mercado (BOLIVIA - Tags: SOCIETY EDUCATION)ATTENTION EDITORS: PICTURE 11 OF 32 FOR PACKAGE 'WOMEN'S DAY - MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS' TO FIND ALL IMAGES SEARCH 'REUTERS MOTHERS DAUGHTERS' - GM1EA370T5701

Report

Empowering women entrepreneurs in developing countries

Eyerusalem Siba

Friday, February 15, 2019

Man working in factory with heavy machinery

Technology & Innovation

Countering the geographical impacts of automation: Computers, AI, and place disparities

Thursday, February 14, 2019

A man is reflected in a puddle as he walks with an umbrella in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, U.S., February 7, 2018. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri - RC18541FABC0

Report

Men without work

Sergio Pinto and Carol Graham

Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Events

Tiffin Talks | Understanding India’s generation capacity – Surplus, for how long?

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

No. 6, second floor, Dr Jose P Rizal Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, India

Raghuram Rajan: How markets and the state leave the community behind

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM EST

The future of U.S. policy in Afghanistan

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM EST

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Blog Posts

FILE PHOTO: A currency dealer counts wads of bond notes outside a bank in Harare, Zimbabwe,February 24, 2017. REUTERS/Philimon Bulawayo/File Photo - RC19BF0609A0

Africa in focus

Africa in the news: Zimbabwe’s new currency, Senegal election update, and Obama supports Africa basketball league

Saturday, February 23, 2019

Voters queue outside a polling centre before casting their ballots in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, December 30, 2018. REUTERS/Kenny Katombe - RC129A38C790

Order from Chaos

A roadmap for the United States in DRC and other budding African democracies

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Sasha Lezhnev

Friday, February 22, 2019

Al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front fighters carry weapons on the back of pick-up trucks during the release of Lebanese soldiers and policemen in Arsal, eastern Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, December 1, 2015. REUTERS/Stringer TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - GF200000812722

Order from Chaos

What comes after ISIS?

Daniel L. Byman

Friday, February 22, 2019

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Books

The Future of Work

By Darrell M. West

2018

Dream Hoarders

By Richard V. Reeves

2018

Book cover: Diversity Explosion

Diversity Explosion

By William H. Frey

2018

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David G. Victor speaks on Geoengineering at CERAWeek 2019 in Houston, Texas.

David G. Victor

CERAWeek 2019

David G. Victor speaks on Nature-based climate and energy solutions at CERAWeek 2019.

David G. Victor

CERA Week 2019

U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff General David Goldfein talks to journalists at the Royal International Air Tattoo at Fairford, Britain July 8, 2016. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls - S1AETOKYIXAA

General David Goldfein on building the Air Force of the future

Adam Twardowski

Friday, February 22, 2019

Workers unload bags of cocoa from trucks at SAF CACAO, an export firm in San-Pedro, Ivory Coast January 29, 2016. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon - GF10000289560

Figures of the week: Increasing intra-regional trade in Africa

Friday, February 22, 2019

View of containers at a loading terminal in the port of Rades in Tunis, Tunisia August 15, 2018. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi - RC1E6B62C5F0

It’s time for Nigeria to sign the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement

Aloysius Uche Ordu

Friday, February 22, 2019

Figure 1. Governments of today’s low-income countries spent more on average in 2018 than today’s advanced economies did in 1900 (in percent of GDP)

Charts of the week: Economic trends in developing countries

Friday, February 22, 2019

Brookings Around The World

The Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution

Washington, D.C., USA

Brookings Doha

Brookings Doha

Brookings Tsinghua

Brookings Tsinghua

Haidian, Beijing, China

Brookings India

Brookings India

New Delhi, Delhi, India