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Brookings Today, 8/6/14

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

August 6, 2014

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

  • Should the U.S. adopt European-style insurance regulations? Robert Litan explains why it is premature for the United States to embrace insurance solvency regulation as it is important to distinguish between banks and insurers.
  • Role of regional organizations in national disaster management. Elizabeth Ferris calls for efforts to assess the role of regional organizations in building the capacity of national disaster management organizations.
  • Why Silicon Valley software developers have an edge. Jonathan Rothwell asks what distinguishes Silicon Valley software developers.
  • The limits on DACA estimates. Audrey Singer suggests why estimates of the population eligible for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program should be treated with uncertainty.
  • Leveraging data in health care. Darrell West and Niam Yaragh list four ways to leverage the maximum potential of data in the health care.
  • Latin American elections and results in 2014. Daniel Zovatto unpacks the intense 2014 electoral landscape in Latin America.
  • AGOA and regional integration. Witney Schneidman interviews the African Development Bank’s Moono Mupotola.
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Elina Saxena contributed to this post.

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