Brookings Global at UNGA

2024

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As world leaders discuss global challenges at the United Nations General Assembly, experts in the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings share their expertise on issues from systems reform to the Sustainable Development Goals.

Global

Past Event

September 24

2024

Diplomacy & Multilateralism The 2024 US presidential election and the future of multilateralism

Online only

Tuesday, 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm EDT

A sculpture in the shape of "#UNGA" on the sidewalk

Global Economy & Development What to watch for at the 2024 UN General Assembly

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, Landry Signé, George Ingram, Priya Vora, Rebecca Winthrop, Caren Grown, Belinda Archibong, Brad Olsen, Jennifer L. O’Donoghue, Sweta Shah, Ghulam Omar Qargha +6 more

September 19, 2024

Reproductive Health Care Reaffirming the UN’s commitment to global reproductive rights

Amna Qayyum

September 19, 2024

Sustainable Development Goals As the UN General Assembly gets underway, how are we doing on the Sustainable Development Goals?

John W. McArthur, Fred Dews

September 13, 2024

Lines connect locations across a world map, superimposed on a city skyline

Global Economy & Development Reforms for a 21st century global financial architecture

Wafa Abedin, Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, Hafez Ghanem, Eswar Prasad, Marilou Uy

April 8, 2024

Sustainable Development Goals The SDG second half: Ideas for doing things differently

April 5, 2023

International Financial Institutions How to govern the Bretton Woods Institutions better

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, Hafez Ghanem, Wafa Abedin

April 11, 2024

Africa Growth Initiative

Global Economy & Development Are private equity investments financing the SDGs in sub-Saharan Africa?

Louise Fox, David Kritzberg, Michael Nicholson

October 16, 2023

Global Economy & Development Re-globalization and Africa’s integral role in a sustainable future

Stephen Karingi, Jason McCormack

July 30, 2024

Cybersecurity concept with digital Africa map with locks and glowing lines on abstract dark background. 3D rendering.

Technology & Information Reforming data regulation to advance AI governance in Africa

Chinasa T. Okolo

March 15, 2024

Center for Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development Goals How is the world doing on the SDGs? Four tests and eight findings

Homi Kharas, John W. McArthur, Odera Onyechi

July 17, 2024

Wide view of the inside of the United Nations General Assembly Building, with the walls lit up in the colors of the Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development Goals Rebooting the Sustainable Development Goals

John W. McArthur, Zia Khan

August 12, 2024

Economist Caren Grown interview at Center for Sustainable Development with Junjie Ren

Sustainable Development Goals Gender, economics, tax progressivity, and care in the age of climate change: Caren Grown’s vision for inclusive policy

Caren Grown, Junjie Ren

August 19, 2024

Center for Universal Education

Education Technology Funders’ role in scaling education innovation

Larry Cooley, Jenny Perlman Robinson

March 8, 2024

Education What ChatGPT can’t do: Educating for curiosity and creativity

Natalie Evans, Jamie Jirout, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek

August 22, 2023

Development Financing Transforming the future of global health

Elyse Painter, Emily Gustafsson-Wright

June 14, 2024