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Brookings Today, 4/9/14

Fred Dews
Fred Dews Managing Editor, New Digital Products - Office of Communications

April 9, 2014

A roundup of some of the content published today by Brookings.

  • IMF-World Bank meetings. Brookings experts comment on the upcoming World Bank and IMF spring meetings.
  • Teacher preparation. Thomas Kane applies lessons from medical training to three types of changes needed in teacher preparation.
  • Democracy dividends from the Afghanistan investment. Michael O’Hanlon and David Petraeus say that we may know how well American sacrifices have paid off in a successful recent election. (WSJ.com, subscription rqd.)
  • Tax incentives do a poor job at helping households accumulate financial and tangible assets, writes Benjamin Harris.

Mingwei Ma contributed to this post.

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