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Podcast: “China’s Belt and Road Stretches to Africa”
In this episode of the Brookings Institution’s trade podcast, Dollar and Sense, David Dollar hosts Deborah Brautigam of John Hopkins for a discussion of Africa in China’s most recent globaniliation push, the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Read MoreFoundational Article: “Behavioral Design: A New Approach to Development Policy”
This article on behavioral design by Saugato Datta and Sendhil Mullainathan focuses on recent developments in incorporating human psychology into the design of policy interventions, and how small changes can have large impacts.
Read MorePodcast: Peace, Security, and the United Nations General Assembly
In this podcast from Brookings Cafeteria, Fred Dews interviews Brookings Foreign Policy Director Bruce Jones regarding how the state of security has changed over the past years and what the United Nations (UN) should be doing about it.
Read MoreBlog Interview: “How to Reform a Government Investment Agency”
In an interview originally published in LSE’s Annual Review 2015-2016, John Sutton of LSE talks about the insights he learned from on-the-ground work with Ethiopia’s government regarding establishing effective government agencies.
Read MoreExecutive Summary: Why Some States are So Much More Effective at Implementing Policy Than Others
In this executive summary, Best, Szakonyi and Hjort write about a 2017 article in which they utilized state procurement as an outcome variable to evaluate bureaucratic efficacy in Russia, much in the way that diagnostics of effectiveness in firms measured by indicators such as sales, costs and profits would suggest where a firm can be improving.
Read MoreVoxDev Video: “Bringing Research to Policy”
Sebastian Galiani of the University of Maryland is currently Deputy Minister at the Argentinian Treasury. Here he talks about the links between academia and policy.
Read MorePodcast: “Multinational Enforcement of Labor Laws”
In this VoxDev talks, Laura Boudreau from Columbia Business School talks about a recent experiment she ran in Bangladesh with multinational buyers in the garment sector and how their involvement changed compliance with safety regulations on the part of Bangladeshi suppliers.
Read MorePodcast: “A Global Response to the Climate Crisis”
This podcast from the Brookings Cafeteria focuses on the climate crisis and the burden left on the rest of the world after the US withdrawal from the 2015 Paris Accords.
Read MorePodcast: US-China Competition in Global Development
This podcast from Brookings Cafeteria talks about China’s growing clout in the world and some misconceptions surround its rise, the US-China strategic rivalry, and China’s role in a global rules-based order.
Read MoreRequired Reading: “Social Welfare and the Tradeoff Between Efficiency and Equity”
In the second of a two-part series, this article on social welfare considers cross-country differences in the effect of taxation on labor supply. It has been assigned as reading for “Public Economics,” a core course taught in the fall.
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