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Kimani Murage, an 84-year-old Kenyan grandfather who has 30 grandchildren, attends lessons with classmates January 15, 2004 at a primary school after the government introduced free primary education last year. Murage, who was part of the Mau Mau movement that fought against British colonial rule in Kenya in the 1950s, has classmates whose average age is seven years old, and two of his grandchildren attend more advanced classes in the same school in Kenya's Eldoret district, some 270 km (162 miles) northwest of the capital Nairobi. REUTERS/Beatrice Mategwa PP04010048 RS/ACM - RP4DRIGLUBAC

Education Plus Development

A collaborative approach to teaching and assessing 21st century skills in Africa

Helyn Kim, Esther Care, and Davide Ruscelli

Thursday, April 25, 2019

Harry J. Holzer

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies

John LaFarge Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University

Man grocery shopping with COVID mask

Coronavirus (COVID-19) Economics

Initial impacts of the pandemic on consumer behavior

Natalie Cox, Peter Ganong, Pascal Noel, Joseph Vavra, Arlene Wong, Diana Farrell, Fiona Greig, and Erica Deadman

Thursday, June 25, 2020

Computer network equipment is seen in a server room in Vienna, Austria, October 25, 2018. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader

TechStream

Podcast: Alissa Starzak on Cloudflare, content moderation, and the internet stack

Alissa Starzak, Quinta Jurecic, and Evelyn Douek

Tuesday, September 8, 2020

Sister of ten-year-old malnourished girl Afaf Hussein holds a pot of rice she cooked in their kitchen outside their house in the village of al-Jaraib in the northwestern province of Hajjah, Yemen, February 19, 2019. REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah

Future Development

Middle East food security amid the COVID-19 pandemic

Tuesday, July 14, 2020

The opioid crisis in America: Vulnerable groups, law enforcement, and international supply

2:30 PM - 4:00 PM EDT

The South Portico porch steps of the White House are seen after a renovation in Washington, U.S., August 22, 2017. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas - RC16122FF710

FixGov

And then there were ten: With 85% turnover across President Trump’s A Team, who remains?

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas

Monday, April 13, 2020

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Africa in Focus

Ebola goes global: The future of development, accountability, and media empowerment in Liberia

Thursday, September 10, 2015

A view shows cars stuck in a traffic jam in Beirut, Lebanon June 10, 2021. Picture taken June 10, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Future Development

How to kick-start the decoupling of emissions from economic growth in MENA

Martin Philipp Heger and Lukas Vashold

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

U.S. President George W. Bush (R) speaks during a signing ceremony tocreate the Department of Homeland Security in Washington, November 25,2002. White House advisor Tom Ridge (L), Asa Hutchinson (2nd L), thehead of the Drug Enforcement Administration and Navy Secretary GordonEngland (3rd L) listen to the President. Bush picked Ridge to be thedepartment's first secretary and said he would nominate England to bethe deputy secretary and Hutchinson to be undersecretary of border andtransportation security. REUTERS/Gary HershornGMH/ME

FixGov

9/11 and the reinvention of the US intelligence community

Friday, August 27, 2021

CDU party chairwoman Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer speaks at the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party congress in Leipzig, Germany, November 22, 2019. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke - RC2BGD94ZVUT

Order from Chaos

The power struggle to lead Germany’s CDU has been postponed

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Tuesday, November 26, 2019

The Early Federal Workforce

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Op-Ed

To comply with the Clean Power Plan, states should tax carbon

Adele Morris and Evan Weber

Wednesday, September 2, 2015

Contact tracing app TraceTogether, released by the Singapore government to curb the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is seen on a mobile phone, in Singapore March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Edgar Su

TechStream

Contact-tracing apps face serious adoption obstacles

Sarah Kreps, Baobao Zhang, and Nina McMurry

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

News Release

Peter Orszag to re-join Economic Studies at Brookings

Tuesday, September 8, 2015