How should the Biden administration approach Africa?

How should the Biden administration approach Africa?

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A woman holding her mobile phone walks past a sales advertisement poster in front of a shoe store in Tokyo February 15, 2015. Japan's economy rebounded from recession to grow an annualized 2.2 percent in the final quarter of last year, giving a much-needed boost to premier Shinzo Abe's efforts to shake off decades of stagnation even as the global outlook deteriorates. Picture taken February 15, 2015. REUTERS/Yuya Shino (JAPAN - Tags: BUSINESS POLITICS)

Does government debt increase after global recessions?

M. Ayhan Kose, Peter Nagle, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Naotaka Sugawara

Friday, December 17, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Euro, Hong Kong dollar, U.S. dollar, Japanese yen, pound and Chinese 100 yuan banknotes are seen in this picture illustration, January 21, 2016. REUTERS/Jason Lee/Illustration//File Photo

Debt tsunami of the pandemic

M. Ayhan Kose, Peter Nagle, Franziska Ohnsorge, and Naotaka Sugawara

Friday, December 17, 2021

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Immigrant workers and care for America’s elderly

Kristin F. Butcher, Kelsey Moran, and Tara Watson

Friday, December 17, 2021

A U.S. Army soldier of 5-20 Infantry Regiment attached to 82nd Airborne Division, aims his rifle in front of a bullet riddled map of Afghanistan painted on a wall of an abandoned Canadian-built school in the Zharay district of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan June 9, 2012. REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov (AFGHANISTAN - Tags: MILITARY CIVIL UNREST POLITICS)

The crucial need to secure the location data of vulnerable populations

Faine Greenwood

Friday, December 17, 2021

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How equity isn’t built into the infrastructure bill—and ways to fix it

Carlos Martín, Andre M. Perry, and Anthony Barr

Friday, December 17, 2021

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Inequitable fines and fees hurt vulnerable communities. Now, policymakers have an opportunity for reform.

Tonantzin Carmona

Friday, December 17, 2021

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Brookings Metro at 25: Building a more prosperous, just, and resilient future

Jade Arn, Alan Berube, Molly Kinder, Amy Liu, Mark Muro, Joseph Parilla, Andre M. Perry, Jenny Schuetz, and Fred Dews

Friday, December 17, 2021

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What did the Fed do in response to the COVID-19 crisis?

Eric Milstein and David Wessel

Friday, December 17, 2021

Officials, including Afghan former President Hamid Karzai and the Taliban's deputy leader and negotiator Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, attend the Afghan peace conference in Moscow, Russia March 18, 2021. Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool via REUTERS

It’s time for the West to engage with the Taliban

Michael E. O’Hanlon, Rory Stewart, and Obaid Younossi

Thursday, December 16, 2021