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Bates Gill Named Director Of New Brookings Center On Northeast Asia Policy Studies

Friday, October 9, 1998

Indermit Gill

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development

Rising Star

By Bates Gill

2010

Construction workers erect scaffolding at the site of metro station as a SpiceJet Airlines aircraft flies past in the southern Indian city of Chennai May 14, 2012. Growth in Asia's third-largest economy is slowing as costlier credit and the impact of Europe's debt crisis on exports have sapped expansion. Gross domestic product rose 6.1 percent in December quarter from a year earlier, the slowest pace in near three years. REUTERS/Babu (INDIA - Tags: TRANSPORT BUSINESS CONSTRUCTION) - GM1E85E1KU101

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Economic geography bites back

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

A man walks in front of the India Gate shrouded in smog in New Delhi, India, October 29, 2018. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC113DDAC100

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Joyless growth in China, India, and the United States

Tuesday, January 22, 2019

A woman wears a sticker in multiple languages after voting in the primary election at a polling station in Venice, Los Angeles, California, U.S. June 5, 2018. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson - RC1BF5D43BD0

Brown Center Chalkboard

One charter school network’s positive impact on registration and voting

Friday, June 29, 2018

U.S. President Donald Trump, flanked by ?Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, White House Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert, Assistant to the President Peter Navarro and Deputy Assistant to the President for International Economic Affairs Everett Eissenstat, delivers remarks before signing a memorandum on intellectual property tariffs on high-tech goods from China, at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 22, 2018. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RC153113ADA0

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Future Development Reads: Trusting Trump on trade

Friday, April 6, 2018

People displaced by the recent unrest, collect food distributed by aid agencies at an IDP camp at the Mpoko international airport of Bangui February 12, 2014. The United Nations estimates that 1.3 million people - more than a quarter of the population - are in need of urgent food aid after months of communal violence that French and African peacekeepers have been unable to stop. REUTERS/Luc Gnago (CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - GM1EA2D01YD01

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The end of aid

Friday, January 19, 2018

A general view of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington May 27, 2015. Tax return information for about 100,000 U.S. taxpayers was illegally accessed by cyber criminals over the past four months, U.S. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of data thefts that have alarmed American consumers. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - GF10000109446

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Future Development Reads: How much should corporate income be taxed?

Monday, December 18, 2017

Employees work on a solar panel production line at Suntech Power Holdings headquarters in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, April 3, 2013. Picture taken April 3, 2013. To match Special Report SUNTECH/SHI REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA - Tags: ENERGY BUSINESS) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA - GM1E95J07AM01

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Future Development Reads: China’s shifting manufacturing labor pool is creating global dreams—and nightmares

Friday, November 17, 2017

(Front row, L to R) Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) Zhang Dejiang, former Chinese President Hu Jintao, Chinese President Xi Jinping, former President Jiang Zemin, and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, are seen during the opening of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China October 18, 2017. REUTERS/Aly Song - RC1E7E16C900

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Future Development Reads: Xi Jinping, China’s People’s Party, and the middle-income trap

Friday, October 20, 2017

A train launched to operate on the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) line constructed by the China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) and financed by Chinese government arrives at the Nairobi Terminus on the outskirts of Kenya's capital Nairobi May 31, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya - RC13EFC12310

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Future Development Reads: China’s Belt and Road Initiative

Friday, September 22, 2017

A visitor stands in front of flags representing different African countries during a Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Sandton, Johannesburg, December 4, 2015. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko - RTX1X5GY

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Future Development Reads: The brittle consensus on Africa’s prospects

Friday, July 21, 2017

An apartment complex for labourers who work at a shoe factory is seen in the city of Wenzhou, in Zhejiang province February 18, 2011. Labour shortages in Chinese coastal factories are nothing new. The world's workshop has been churning out the exports again after hitting a lull during the global financial crisis. But workers are becoming more choosy about the kind of jobs they want, eschewing the long hours, tedious work and poor benefits offered in China's many sweatshops. What's more, competition for labour is now coming from new factories in China's rapidly urbanising interior. To match Special Report CHINA-LABOUR/ Picture taken on February 18, 2011. REUTERS/Carlos Barria (CHINA - Tags: POLITICS BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - RTR2J0WC

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Future Development Reads: Air conditioning and economic development

Friday, June 23, 2017

Call center agents work overnight daily to cater to United States clients in Manila's Makati financial district February 6, 2012. The number of Filipinos who work graveyard shifts to answer calls on behalf of big multinational companies like Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase is now greater than India's 350,000, earning the Philippine's the title - Call Centre Capital of the World. By 2016, the Philippines wants to double the size of the local BPO market to $25 billion, employing 1.3 million workers from 640,000 at the end of 2011. But to be able to that the Southeast Asian nation must convince investors it has more to offer than a huge pool of english-speaking talent. Picture taken February 6, 2012. To match Analysis OUTSOURCING/PHILIPPINES REUTERS/Erik De Castro (PHILIPPINES - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT) - RTR2Z2A4

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Future Development Reads: Impact investing, impact sourcing, and international development

Friday, May 26, 2017