Research by: Region
Audio: “All about the Trans-Pacific Partnership”
In this episode of “Dollar and Sense,” David Dollar hosts Mieya Solis of Brookings for a discussion about the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), from its inception to its possible future.
Read MoreAudio: “Indonesia, an Unlikely Democracy”
In this Brookings Cafeteria Podcast, Jonathan Stromseth of Brookings interviews Tom Pepinsky of Cornell about Indonesia and its political system.
Read MoreBrookings Audio: “Where Does Nationalism Come From?”
In this Brookings Cafeteria Podcast, Bill Finan interviews Liah Greenfeld of Boston University about Greenfeld’s book, Nationalism: A Short History.
Read MoreAudio: “Achieving Inclusive Growth in Asia”
VoxDev’s Tim Phillips talks with Yasuyuki Sawada, the Chief Economist of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), about how the objectives and challenges of the ADB have changed in the past half-century as Asian economies have developed and altered how they interact with the rest of the world.
Read MoreAudio: Achieving Meaningful Impact through Aid
VoxDev host Tim Phillips talks with Rachel Glennerster, the Chief Economist of the UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) about the role of aid in development.
Read MorePodcast: “Global Value Chains and the WTO”
In this episode of “Dollar and Sense,” David Dollar of Brookings hosts Robert Koopman of the World Trade Organization (WTO) for a discussion on global value chains.
Read MorePodcast: “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 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.
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