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MoneyFig

The macroeconomic implications of Biden’s $1.9 trillion fiscal package

Wendy Edelberg and Louise Sheiner · Thursday, January 28, 2021

Douglas Austen Jensen of Iowa, a supporter of President Donald Trump wearing a QAnon shirt, confronts police as Trump supporters demonstrate on the second floor of the U.S. Capitol near the entrance to the Senate after breaching security defenses, in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Theiler

Education

We’ve built schools for a modern economy—but they overlook the challenges of our modern democracy

Monday, February 1, 2021

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Global Development

Could COVID-19 produce a ‘great reset’ for African economies?

Aloysius Uche Ordu and David Dollar

Monday, February 1, 2021

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The sun rises on the first day of Eid al-Fitr in Amman August 19, 2012. Eid-al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, the holiest month on the Islamic calendar. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN - Tags: CITYSPACE ENVIRONMENT RELIGION)

Podcast Episode

Proposals for the Biden administration on the Middle East and countering extremism

Madiha Afzal, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and Fred Dews

Friday, January 29, 2021

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Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Local COVID-19 hazard pay mandates are doing what Congress and most corporations aren’t for essential workers

Molly Kinder and Laura Stateler

Wednesday, January 27, 2021

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Latest Research

An oil tanker is being loaded at Saudi Aramco's Ras Tanura oil refinery and oil terminal in Saudi Arabia May 21, 2018. Picture taken May 21, 2018. REUTERS/Ahmed Jadallah

Middle East & North Africa

Economic diversification in the Gulf: Time to redouble efforts

Nader Kabbani and Nejla Ben Mimoune

Sunday, January 31, 2021

An employee of online fashion retailer Zozo Inc, poses with Zozoglass and its smartphone application, used to measure skin tone for ordering cosmetics online, during a demonstration at the company's office in Tokyo, Japan, January 28, 2021. Picture taken January 28, 2021. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

Report

Innovation quality and global collaborations: Insights from Japan

Dany Bahar and Selen Özdoğan

Friday, January 29, 2021

Immigration

4 ways the Biden administration can improve the employment-based immigration system without Congress

Dan Berger, Steve Yale-Loehr, Emily Hindle, and Hun Lee

Thursday, January 28, 2021

People are seen, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Cairo, Egypt January 5, 2021. Picture taken January 5, 2021. REUTERS/Ahmed Fahmy

Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Policy and Institutional Responses to COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa: Egypt

Robert P. Beschel Jr.

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Hand Out photo dated Auguts 26, 2020 of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81), not pictured, executes a passing exercise with Turkish Navy frigates TCG Barbaros (FF 244) and Burgazada (F 513) in the Mediterranean Sea. Tension is simmering in the waters of the Eastern Mediterranean as Greece and Turkey, NATO allies but historic rivals, inch toward a possible military confrontation that could end up engulfing the region. Naval vessels from both countries made a show of force in the contested region of the Eastern Mediterranean this week as a race for gas and oil reserves adds a new point of friction to old disputes. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Louis Thompson Staats IV via ABACAPRESS.COM

Report

Turkey, Europe, and the Eastern Mediterranean: Charting a way out of the current deadlock

Thursday, January 28, 2021

Events

International security challenges and solutions for the road ahead

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM EST

Climate change and financial market regulations: Insights from BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and former SEC Chair Mary Schapiro

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM EST

How can the Biden administration improve the Medicaid program?

2:00 PM - 3:15 PM EST

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Blog Posts

A firefighter/paramedic prepares a shot of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccination at the Tequesta Fire Departmenton January 15, 2021 in Tequesta, Florida. The city received 50 doses. There are 1600 residets that are 65 and older. The online appointments were taken in under three minutes. GREG LOVETT/PALM BEACH POSTTequesta Va3

TechTank

Five ways that health information exchange can help with vaccination efforts

Niam Yaraghi and Peter L. Levin

Monday, February 1, 2021

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Brookings Now

10 things we learned at Brookings in January

Monday, February 1, 2021

A voter casts her ballot at a polling station during the presidential, legislative and communal council elections, under the simmering political violence and the growing threat of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Ngozi, Burundi May 20, 2020. REUTERS/Clovis Guy Siboniyo

Africa in Focus

Voting in a pandemic: Lessons for elections in Africa in 2021

Rushdi Nackerdien

Monday, February 1, 2021

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Books

Cvr: Turning Point

Turning Point

By Darrell M. West and John R. Allen

2020

Cover: Know Your Price

Know Your Price

By Andre M. Perry

2020

Cvr: The Constitution of Knowledge

Upcoming

The Constitution of Knowledge

By Jonathan Rauch

2021

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FILE PHOTO: A view of the Supreme Court in Washington, U.S. January 19, 2021. Susan Walsh/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Will the Supreme Court weaken lower-court checks on Biden’s executive power?

Frank J. Thompson

Monday, February 1, 2021

A young protester makes a victory sign as he took part in anti-government demonstration held on Avenue Habib Bourguiba in the capital Tunis, to protest against the government of the prime minister Hichem Mechichi, and in support of the protest movements that hit Tunisia in several cities overnight over the past few days. Protesters clashed with the security forces who fired tear gas and used pepper spray in attempt to disperse them. They also claimed for the release of youths arrested by the police during the latest protests, and denounced the high cost of living and the increase in poverty. Tunisia, on January 19, 2021. Un jeune manifestant fait le signe de victoire alors qu'il participe a une manifestation anti-gouvernementale qui se tient sur l'avenue Habib Bourguiba dans la capitale Tunis, pour protester contre le gouvernement du premier ministre Hichem Mechichi, et pour soutenir les mouvements de protestation qui ont touche la Tunisie dans plusieurs villes dans la nuit de ces derniers jours. Les manifestants se sont heurtes aux forces de l'ordre qui ont tire le gaz lacrymogene et intervenu au gaz poivre pour tenter de les disperser. Ils ont egalement reclame la liberation des jeunes arretes par la police lors des dernieres manifestations, et denonce le cout eleve de la vie et l'augmentation de la pauvrete. Tunisie, le 19 janvier 2021.NO USE FRANCE

BDC Snapshots: Tunisia’s persistent economic woes may endanger its fledgling democracy

Yasmina Abouzzohour

Monday, February 1, 2021

Residents of the Praia Nova neighbourhood seek shelter from Tropical Cyclone Eloise, in Beira, Mozambique, January 23, 2021. Picture taken January 23, 2021. UNICEF/Franco/Handout via REUTERS NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY

Africa in the news: Kenya-Somali relations sour, Cyclone Eloise hits Mozambique, and tensions in and around Ethiopia escalate

Christina Golubski and Leo Holtz

Saturday, January 30, 2021

Abu hassan, a local man, walks past rubble in Aleppo's Salaheddine district, Syria April 13, 2019. Picture taken April 13, 2019. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

The United States needs a new Syria policy

Jeffrey Feltman and Hrair Balian

Friday, January 29, 2021

Migrants, mainly from Central America and marching in a caravan, walk on a road on the outskirts of Ciudad Hidalgo, Chiapas, Mexico January 23, 2020. REUTERS/Andres Martinez Casares TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

The imperative to address the root causes of migration from Central America

Charles T. Call

Friday, January 29, 2021

Hutchins Fiscal Impact Measure

Hutchins Center Fiscal Impact Measure

Friday, January 29, 2021