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The Global Economy and Development program at Brookings hosted the third meeting of its <a href="https://www.brookings.edu/legacy/440025AC-504F-4CF2-9D42-05A6D7C9EA74">Global Young Professionals Program</a> on June 5. The briefing brought together over 90 young professionals—the next generation of leaders working in the fields of global economics and development. The breakfast featured William Easterly, distinguished economist and development expert, who presented on...

The rich have influenced most developing countries to prioritize inflation targeting in monetary policy instead of adopting bolder economic policies for growth, jobs and sustainable development.

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The hope for major change, given Pakistan's political economy issues amply on display at present, is slim.

Tourists might buy souvenirs, but President Obama is seeking “deliverables” he can bring home to convince Americans that the millions of their tax dollars spent to send the huge U.S. delegation to the G-8 Meeting in Italy this week was money well spent. So, he has been leaning on other G-8 leaders to support his plan to provide new development assistance funds for programs in poor countries in Africa and elsewhere to help farmers learn how to grow more food.

Our freedom depends upon a great measure, on the things that we do as individuals, as communities and as a society. 

A new book by Hugo Slim analyses the current state of humanitarianism and should be required reading for aid agencies in Myanmar.

It's become fashionable to argue that foreign aid doesn't make a difference. Here’s why the critics couldn't be more wrong.

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