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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence speaks during the annual Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany February 16, 2019. REUTERS/Michael Dalder - RC1575A4D000

Dispatch from Munich: The trans-Atlantic rift persists amid weaknesses on both sides

Amanda Sloat · Monday, February 18, 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

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

Washington DC

Infrastructure

New year, same debate? Washington needs a fresh infrastructure approach

Adie Tomer and Joseph Kane

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Energy creation and Pollution Oil and Petrochemical Smog and Fossil Fuels are Climate Change and Global Warming black and white , monochrome finish Corpus Christi refinery

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How racial and regional inequality affect economic opportunity

Jay Shambaugh, Ryan Nunn, and Stacy A. Anderson

Friday, February 15, 2019

Latest Research

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

The Titan Missile, shown from above during a tour of the 103-foot Titan II Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) site which was decommissioned in 1982, at the Titan Missile Museum in Sahuarita, Arizona, U.S., February 2, 2019. REUTERS/Nicole Neri - RC1218FFA6D0

Arms Control

Managing risk: Nuclear weapons in the new geopolitics

Madelyn R. Creedon, Robert Einhorn, Kate Hewitt, Bonnie Jenkins, Bruce Jones, Suzanne Maloney, Michael E. O’Hanlon, Jung H. Pak, Frank A. Rose, and Strobe Talbott

Monday, February 11, 2019

Events

Development Seminar | Born and raised (‘Made’) in India managers – geared for global success

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

New Delhi, India

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

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Blog Posts

A sign is seen above a check cashing and loan shop in Jersey City, New Jersey, June 2, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar - S1AETHQAPEAA

FixGov

Understanding the uproar over IRS refunds

Jackson Gode and Vanessa Williamson

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Workers sew clothes inside the Indochine Apparel PLC textile factory in Hawassa Industrial Park in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples region, Ethiopia November 17, 2017. Picture taken November 17, 2017.REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri - RC1A972030A0

Future Development

4 lessons for developing countries from advanced economies’ past

Ivailo Izvorski and Kenan Karakülah

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Elementary school children are seen in a classroom on the first day of class in the new school year in Nice, September 3, 2013. REUTERS/Eric Gaillard (FRANCE - Tags: EDUCATION) - PM1E99310WR01

Brown Center Chalkboard

New Education Department guidance on supplement-not-supplant: Sorry not sorry

Marguerite Roza

Wednesday, February 20, 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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A mural depicting Yalitza Aparicio, lead actress in "Roma" movie directed by Alfonso Cuaron, is pictured in Iztapalapa neighborhood in Mexico City, Mexico, January 31, 2019. Picture taken January 31, 2019. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido - RC1FC931A680

And the Oscar for “Best Movie in an Urban Setting” goes to…

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov delivers his speech during the 53rd Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, February 18, 2017. REUTERS/Michaela Rehle - LR1ED2I0XLLD8

Extending New START is a no-brainer—And yet, we can’t count on it

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

An Iranian flag flutters in front of the United Nations headquarters in Vienna June 17, 2014. Six world powers and Iran began their fifth round of nuclear negotiations on Tuesday in hopes of salvaging prospects for a deal over Tehran's disputed atomic activity by a July deadline. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader (AUSTRIA - Tags: POLITICS ENERGY)

The Iran question, again

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris campaigns at a town hall in North Charleston, South Carolina, U.S., February 15, 2019. REUTERS/Elijah Nouvelage - RC142DDF2480

How race and education are shaping ideology in the Democratic party

William A. Galston

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

New York City school bus

New York City takes an important step in improving school integration by measuring diversity

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

A view of minarets of Prophet Mohammad's Mosque in the holy city of Medina January 3, 2007. Pilgrims from all over the world gather in the holy city of Mecca each year for the five-day haj, which is a duty for every able-bodied Muslim at least once in a lifetime. REUTERS/Ali Jarekji (SAUDI ARABIA) FOR BEST QUALITY IMAGE: ALSO SEE GF2E5440NM001 - GM1DUHYIKUAA

Islam as statecraft: How governments use religion in foreign policy

Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Brookings Around The World

The Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution

Washington, D.C., USA

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Brookings Doha

Brookings Tsinghua

Brookings Tsinghua

Haidian, Beijing, China

Brookings India

Brookings India

New Delhi, Delhi, India