Economic Development

Louisville, Kentucky

The Avenue

Exports provide firms a path into the middle market

Jeanine Duncliffe

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Broadband cables

The Avenue

Broadband is too important for this many in the US to be disconnected

Lara Fishbane and Adie Tomer

August 14, 2019

map of Kansas-Missouri border

The Avenue

The end of Kansas-Missouri’s border war should mark a new chapter for both states’ economies

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

Allentown PA

Technology & Innovation

Ideas for Pennsylvania Innovation: Examining efforts by competitor states and national leaders

Robert Maxim and Mark Muro

August 13, 2019

Reports

Port

Global Trade

Strengthening local firms by selling globally

Rachel Barker, Marek Gootman, and Max Bouchet

Friday, August 9, 2019

A man walks past warehouse lofts and new apartments in the South of Market area in San Francisco, California May 25, 2012. More than ever, technology entrepreneurs, and their investors and employees, are choosing the urban charms of San Francisco over the sprawl of neighboring Silicon Valley. In the South of Market district, the nexus of the city's tech industry, rents are soaring and latte lines are lengthening - conjuring memories of the dot-com bubble of the late 1990s. Picture taken May 25. To match Feature SANFRANCISCO-SILICONVALLEY/GEEKS REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY REAL ESTATE) - GM1E86110KI01

U.S. Metro Areas

Policy to help people and help places is not a zero-sum game

Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Metro-to-metro economic partnerships

Economic Development

Metro-to-metro economic partnerships: How to network global assets to fuel regional growth

Marek Gootman, Rachel Barker, and Max Bouchet

July 31, 2019

Hunters View, a multi-phase redevelopment project that includes the replacement of all existing public housing units into mixed-income residences, is shown in the Hunters Point neighborhood of San Francisco, California April 17, 2014. The development includes new rental units, and below-market and market-rate for sale units. REUTERS/Robert Galbraith (UNITED STATES - Tags: SOCIETY REAL ESTATE BUSINESS) - GM1EA4I0AER01

Housing Markets & Finance

Is rent control making a comeback?

Wednesday, July 17, 2019

city

Economic Development

Are the promises of job density taking hold in cities?

Chad Shearer, Joanne Kim, and Isha Shah

Monday, July 8, 2019

Blog Posts

St. Louis

The Avenue

Welcoming communities make for globally competitive city-regions

Rachel Barker, Marek Gootman, and Max Bouchet

Monday, August 5, 2019

Wytheville, Va.

The Avenue

How a rural Virginian town is using entrepreneurship to boost its local economy

Thursday, August 1, 2019

Wichita Kansas

The Avenue

Against the trade winds, cities must stay the global course

Marek Gootman, Rachel Barker, and Max Bouchet

August 1, 2019

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Events

Building Opportunity For All – San Francisco

9:30 AM - 6:00 PM PDT

Development Seminar | Moving India to a new growth trajectory

4:00 PM - 5:30 PM IST

Addressing Africa’s youth unemployment through industries without smokestacks

11:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT

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African Development, African Transformation: How Institutions Shape Development Strategy

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2018

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Under-Rewarded Efforts: The Elusive Quest for Prosperity in Mexico

By Santiago Levy

2018

Open for Business

By Richard Feinberg

2016

Multimedia

A view of Sixth Street leading to the center of Bangor, Pennsylvania, U.S., April 30, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder - RC1EA70F3DA0

U.S. Economy

The geography of prosperity: How to help the areas lagging behind

Jay Shambaugh and David Dollar

Monday, July 22, 2019

A truck driver waits at a logistics area of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, in Shanghai.

Global Trade

Chinese perspectives on trade and the economic tension with the US

David Dollar and Yiping Huang

Monday, June 24, 2019

cover image for sawhill piece

Brookings Now

An economic agenda for the forgotten Americans in a divided nation

Monday, October 15, 2018

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