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Strategies to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

An interactive map shows ship movements around China, seen on a Reuters Eikon screen, October 23, 2015. About 4 million barrels of crude oil bought by a Chinese state trader for the country's strategic reserves have been stranded in two tankers off an eastern port for nearly two months due to a lack of storage, two trade sources said. Picture taken October 23, 2015. REUTERS/Thomas White - GF20000029024

Exploring international data flow governance: Platform for shaping the future of trade and global economic interdependence

Joshua P. Meltzer

Tuesday, December 31, 2019

Workers harvest roses for export to the European market inside a greenhouse at Maridadi Flowers Limited in Naivasha, 90 km (56 miles) west of Kenya's capital Nairobi, April 19, 2010. Kenya's horticulture industry has already lost $12 million to the volcano-induced European airspace closure and it will take several weeks to recover even if flights resume now, its association of exporters said on Monday. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya (KENYA - Tags: TRANSPORT SOCIETY EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS) - GM1E64J1SUF01

Job creation for youth in Africa: Assessing the potential of industries without smokestacks

Ahmadou Aly Mbaye, Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, and Dhruv Gandhi

Monday, December 16, 2019

Brookings Blum Roundtable

2020 and beyond: Maintaining the bipartisan narrative on US global development

Thursday, December 12, 2019

Agricultural fields

Toward strategies for ending rural hunger

Geoffrey Gertz and Homi Kharas

Wednesday, December 11, 2019

A girl looks on as people take part in a "youth strike for climate change" demonstration in London, Britain February 15, 2019. REUTERS/Simon Dawson - RC1F44A5E6F0

Girls’ education in climate strategies

Christina Kwauk, Jessica Cooke, Elisa Hara, and Joni Pegram

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Students take notes from their iPads at the Steve Jobs school in Sneek August 21, 2013. The Steve Jobs schools in the Netherlands are founded by the O4NT (Education For A New Time) organisation, which provides the children with iPads to help them learn with a more interactive experience. REUTERS/Michael Kooren (NETHERLANDS - Tags: SOCIETY EDUCATION SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - GM1E98L1HOU01

How ed-tech can help leapfrog progress in education

Emiliana Vegas, Lauren Ziegler, and Nicolas Zerbino

Wednesday, November 20, 2019

An image of Israeli soldiers is seen on a computer screen with colourful markings of a face recognition programming script, during a cyber security training course, called a Hackathon, at iNT Institute of Technology and Innovation, at a high-tech park in Beersheba, southern Israel August 28, 2017. Picture taken August 28, 2017. REUTERS/Amir Cohen - RC1DE502FAB0

Cybersecurity, digital trade, and data flows: Re-thinking a role for international trade rules

Joshua P. Meltzer

Wednesday, November 13, 2019

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Realism about reskilling

Marcela Escobari, Ian Seyal, and Michael J. Meaney

Thursday, November 7, 2019

Anti-government protesters hold money to donate to protest leader Suthep Thaugsuban as he leads thousands of protesters in a march in central Bangkok January 19, 2014. Twenty-eight people were injured, seven of them seriously, in an explosion on Sunday at a camp of anti-government protesters in the center of the Thai capital, medical officials said. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha (THAILAND - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - GM1EA1J1C4C01

Toward human-centered capitalism

Dennis J. Snower

Wednesday, November 6, 2019