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

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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

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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

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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

Productivity slowdown and wage stagnation: Causes and policy implications

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST

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Blog Posts

Protesters raise their smartphones with screens lit

TechTank

With new technology challenges, remember we’ve been here before

Friday, February 22, 2019

A boy holds a poster during a memorial rally to commemorate people who were killed during the uprising on Maidan square a year ago, in Kiev February 22, 2015. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko (UKRAINE - Tags: ANNIVERSARY CIVIL UNREST) - GM1EB2M1P2901

Order from Chaos

Ukraine: Looking forward, five years after the Maidan Revolution

Friday, February 22, 2019

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Ben Bernanke

Evaluating lower-for-longer policies: Temporary price-level targeting

Ben S. Bernanke

Thursday, February 21, 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

More

The economics of bail, fines, and fees in the U.S. criminal justice system

10:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT

Things as they were, and things as they are, ca 1853 (via LOC)

How we connect: Network revolutions from Gutenberg to Google

Tom Wheeler and Bill Finan

Friday, February 22, 2019

Newark Prep Charter School students listen to academic coach, Robbie Garland, while taking part in an advisory session at the school in Newark, New Jersey

Research and reflections on African-Americans’ experiences in schools

Thursday, February 21, 2019

A customer uses her cell-phone to access the Sidian Bank mobile-app inside the banking hall at the Sidian Bank headquarters on the outskirts of Kenya's capital Nairobi

Could taxation of mobile banking in Africa stall financial inclusion?

Njuguna Ndung’u

Thursday, February 21, 2019

Rep. Seth Moulton at Brookings

Rep. Seth Moulton on geopolitical threats, defense spending, lessons learned, and more

Adam Twardowski

Thursday, February 21, 2019

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

Understanding the uproar over IRS refunds

Jackson Gode and Vanessa Williamson

Wednesday, February 20, 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