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By Lynn C. Ross

2022

Only the rich can play: The story of Opportunity Zones

10:00 AM - 11:30 AM EDT

Washington

Workers make clothes at an apparel manufacturing company in Enshi city, south China's Hubei province, 21 November 2020.Xuan'en County introduced apparel manufacturing enterprises beside the relocation sites in Shadaogou Town and Gaoluo Town to help with employment. So far, it has helped more than 900 people who were relocated to obtain employment and increase income.No Use China. No Use France.

Future Development

What’s next for poverty reduction policies in China?

Maria Ana Lugo, Martin Raiser, and Ruslan Yemtsov

Friday, September 24, 2021

Up Front

The new child tax credit does more than just cut poverty

Jason Jabbari, Leah Hamilton, Stephen Roll, and Michal Grinstein-Weiss

Friday, September 24, 2021

William G. Gale

The Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Director - Retirement Security Project

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Surveillance cameras are seen mounted in front of two Chinese flags.

TechStream

How China harnesses data fusion to make sense of surveillance data

Dahlia Peterson

Thursday, September 23, 2021

A student attends the enrollment of a fifth grade class at Alteburg School with her parents.

Brown Center Chalkboard

Concerns about child well-being during the 2020-21 school year were greatest among parents of remote learners

Marshall Garland, Morgan Polikoff, and Anna Saavedra

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Up Front

Hutchins Roundup: Intergenerational mobility, global debt, and more

Lorena Hernandez Barcena, Nasiha Salwati, and David Wessel

Thursday, September 23, 2021

An employee looks at the Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia's South Gobi region June 23, 2012. REUTERS/David Stanway/File Photo

Transparency

Beneficial ownership in Mongolia: A way forward

Michael Barron, Tim Law, Jake Hartnett, Batsugar Tsedendamba, Amar Adiya, and Ariuntsetseg Jigmeddorj

Thursday, September 23, 2021

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People walk on the esplanade of La Defense, in the financial and business district, west of Paris, France, October 6, 2017. REUTERS/Charles Platiau - RC1B9BB86D30

Up Front

Class Notes: Surprising impacts of unionization, affirmative action, and more

Beyond Deng and Richard V. Reeves

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

A staff member of on-line retailer Jumia, pushes a cart loaded with goods at the company's warehouse in Lagos April 10, 2014. There are two main reasons people shop online: it's cheaper or they can't be bothered with a trip to the store. And in Lagos, a city of 21 million people, a trip to the store can kill your entire day if you lose the traffic lottery. Jumia has 100,000 Nigerian customer accounts and sales are increasing by 15 percent a month. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye (NIGERIA - Tags: BUSINESS)

Africa in Focus

Quantifying the impact on Nigeria of the African Continental Free Trade Area

Yewande Olapade and Chukwuka Onyekwena

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

(L to R) Taehyung/V, Suga, Jin, RM, Jungkook, Jimin and J-Hope of South Korean boy band BTS speak at the SDG Moment event as part of the UN General Assembly 76th session General Debate in UN General Assembly Hall at the United Nations Headquarters, in New York, U.S., September 20, 2021. John Angelillo/Pool via REUTERS

Order from Chaos

From the Kabul airlift to BTS at the UN: South Korea’s middle power role

Andrew Yeo

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

TechTank

Seeing past the cool: Facebook’s new smart glasses

Tom Wheeler

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Only the rich can play: The story of Opportunity Zones

The Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy

Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

Director - Retirement Security Project

Co-Director - Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center

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