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Africa in focus

Industrial clusters: Who benefits?

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Carol Graham

Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow - Global Economy and Development, Brookings Global – CERES Economic and Social Policy in Latin America Initiative

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Global Development

Learning to Compete: Are Spatial Networks of Firms Random?

Emma Howard, Carol Newman, and Jacco Thijssen

Thursday, December 1, 2011

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Economic Development

Learning to Compete: Measuring Industry Agglomeration and Identifying the Driving Forces

Emma Howard, Carol Newman, and Finn Tarp

Monday, October 1, 2012

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Made in Africa

By Carol Newman, John Page, John Rand, Abebe Shimeles, Måns Söderbom, and Finn Tarp

2016

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Global Development

Learning to Compete: Industry Switching in Developing Countries

Carol Newman, John Rand, and Finn Tarp

Sunday, September 18, 2011

A homeless person (L) sleeps on the steps of Federal Hall on Wall St. in New York City, U.S., February 28, 2017. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid - RTS10TR0

Economic Development

Carol Graham on the optimism gap between rich and poor

Tuesday, May 9, 2017

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Carol O’Cleireacain

Former Brookings Expert

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Brookings Now

Carol Graham Awarded for “Substantial Contribution” to Quality of Life Research

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

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Education Plus Development

WATCH: Carol Williams shares the role of education alliances in Worldreader’s scaling success

Jenny Perlman Robinson and Priyanka Varma

Tuesday, May 17, 2016

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Global Economy

Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol: A Morality Tale For Our Times?

Isabel V. Sawhill

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

A homeless woman sits bundled against the cold as she begs for handouts on East 42nd Street in the Manhattan borough of New York City, January 4, 2016. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed an executive order on Sunday requiring local officials throughout the state to force the homeless into shelters when temperatures dip below freezing and vowed to defend the edict if challenged in court. REUTERS/Mike Segar - RTX2109K

Income Inequality & Social Mobility

Lack of hope in America: The high costs of being poor in a rich land

Friday, July 28, 2017

Workers construct the viewing stands ahead of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's January inauguration at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., December 8, 2016. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst - RTSVA7V

Income Inequality & Social Mobility

The unhappiness of the US working class

July 10, 2017

Two children play while their parents line up for clothes at school used as a shelter as storm Otto approaches in Guapiles, Costa Rica November 23, 2016. REUTERS/ Juan Carlos Ulate - RTST0Y6

Social Issues

Do aspirations and well-being matter to future outcomes? Lessons from the Young Lives survey in Peru

Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Job seeker Dave Mugavero waits in front of the training offices of Local Union 46, a union representing metallic lathers and reinforcing ironworkers, in the Queens borough of New York April 30, 2012. Some 500 people who have waited in front of the offices for a week after the State Department of Labor and the union announced that they were looking to hire iron and wood apprentices were given forms to apply for the 50 available positions on Monday, according to the union. REUTERS/Keith Bedford (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) - RTR31F2T

Income Inequality & Social Mobility

Is the American dream really dead?

Tuesday, June 20, 2017