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Chaos from order

John R. Allen · Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Economic Development

The future of money: digital currency

Wednesday, July 18, 2018

The stripes on the American flag overlaid with shadows cast by campaigners onstage.

Demographics & Population

Is increasing diversity positive for the U.S.? A look at the partisan divide

William A. Galston

Thursday, July 19, 2018

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U.S. Economy

History won’t be kind to politicians who stay silent on Trump’s trade war

Robert E. Litan

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

A townhouse for sale that is currently under contract is seen in Bethesda, Maryland December 30, 2015. Contracts to buy previously owned U.S. homes fell in November for the third time in four months, a signal that growth in the U.S. housing market could be cooling. The National Association of Realtors (NAR) said on Wednesday its pending home sales index slipped 0.9 percent to 106.9. REUTERS/Gary Cameron

Housing Markets & Finance

Under US housing policies, homeowners mostly win, while renters mostly lose

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Latest Research

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 20, 2017. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

U.S. Politics & Government

Tracking turnover in the Trump administration

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, Elaine Kamarck, and Nicholas W. Zeppos

Friday, July 20, 2018

A student take a test in the hallway outside the classroom

Education

Evidence on New York City and Boston exam schools

Susan M. Dynarski

Thursday, July 19, 2018

Dollar bills

State & Local Fiscal Policy

City budgets in an era of increased uncertainty

Michael A. Pagano and Christopher W. Hoene

July 18, 2018

coal

Energy Industry

Indian Railways and coal: An unsustainable interdependency

Puneet Kamboj and Rahul Tongia

Tuesday, July 17, 2018

A health insurance navigator explains services at a booth in Arizona

Health Care Policy

Stabilizing and strengthening the individual health insurance market

Friday, July 13, 2018

Events

An update on Colombia

9:00 AM - 10:30 AM EDT

The future of online privacy: To legislate or not

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT

Development Seminar | No free lunch: Using technology to improve the efficacy of school feeding programmes

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

New Delhi, India

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Blog Posts

Commuters wait at a railway platform in Mumbai, India.

Brookings Now

Charts of the week: Railways and enrollment in India, sales tax in the United States

Friday, July 20, 2018

A farmer checks on his crop of tomatos in Tipaza, west of Algiers, Algeria June 3, 2015. Besides falling energy revenues, Algeria also has a growing number of mouths to feed, with the population put at 40 million and increasing by an estimated one million a year. Main foodstuffs, including cereals, sugar and milk are subsidised, but there is no such help for some products such as vegetables, which keeps prices high. Official statistics show the state imports on average five million tonnes of wheat and barley a year, but that figure appears to be climbing. It hit some 7.4 million in 2014. Algeria last year took its first steps towards opening up the farming sector to foreign investors, inviting bids for 16 state-owned farms focused on grains, vegetables, fruit trees and cattle breeding. Picture taken June 3, 2015. To match story ALGERIA-AGRICULTURE/ REUTERS/Ramzi Boudina - GF10000120888

Future Development

Micro and macro aid complement each other: A response to ‘broken aid’

Friday, July 20, 2018

Supporters of the Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz (PML-N) chant and march towards the airport to welcome ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam, in Lahore, Pakistan July 13, 2018. REUTERS/Mohsin Raza - RC17840893C0

Order from Chaos

A volatile election season in Pakistan

Friday, July 20, 2018

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Books

The Future of Work

By Darrell M. West

2018

Dream Hoarders

By Richard V. Reeves

2018

Upcoming

Diversity Explosion

By William H. Frey

2018

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“To destroy the liberal world order”: Trump, Putin, and the imperiled trans-Atlantic alliance

Friday, July 20, 2018

Russia's President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Russian ambassadors and representatives to international organisations in Moscow, Russia, July 19, 2018. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin - RC1C020E1000

Trump is coming off as Putin’s poodle, but that actually undermines Russia’s main goal

Friday, July 20, 2018

A solar panel is pictured on the roof of Jean-Noel Kouame's house, on the outer limits of the main city Abidjan's vast urban sprawl, Ivory Coast December 18, 2017. Picture taken December 18, 2017. REUTERS/Thierry Gouegnon - RC1ECCAAF400

Figures of the week: Africa’s energy innovation landscape

Friday, July 20, 2018

Students attend classes after the city was recaptured from the Islamic State militants in Qayyara, Iraq, November 17, 2016. REUTERS/Ari Jalal - D1BEUNJJSIAB

We studied 3,000 new education ideas—here’s how to choose the best

Rebecca Winthrop

Friday, July 20, 2018

Flags are pictured outside the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva.

Finding breakthroughs for the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Fred Dews, Bill Finan, Homi Kharas, and Enric Sala

Friday, July 20, 2018

Russian President Vladimir Putin listens as U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during their news conference in Helsinki, Finland July 16, 2018. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque - RC188258ED00

Putin didn’t have to push the Kremlin’s narrative. Trump did it for him.

Alina Polyakova

Friday, July 20, 2018

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