report September 28, 2021 Addressing youth unemployment through industries without smokestacks: A Tunisia case study Abstract Although the manufacturing sector is known to have a unique role in structural transformation, the industries without smokestacks (IWOSS) that include tradable services, and that concern in Tunisia mainly IT, tourism, transport, trade, and financial services, can provide new... By Brookings Institute, Report Brookings Institute
report September 27, 2021 The risks of an uneven economic recovery in an unequal world The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the world’s most vulnerable populations through lost lives, health, jobs, incomes, assets, and education. The World Bank’s High-Frequency Phone Surveys (HFPS) help identify the main fault lines along which the pandemic’s unequal impacts are... By Brookings Institute, Post Brookings Institute
report September 27, 2021 Supporting families supports the economy: Social nets are economic foundations “Why I won’t support spending another 3.5 trillion… There’s not a rush to do that right now. We don’t have an urgency. Don’t you think we ought to debate a little bit more, talk about it, and see what... By Brookings Institute, Post Brookings Institute
report September 27, 2021 Aligning COVID-19 recovery efforts with the SDGs – Toolbox and principles Tony PipaThe Brookings InstitutionMia Alibegovic Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Filippo ArrasAssessorato della Difesa dell’Ambiente, Regione Autonomadella Sardegna Laura CavalliFondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Gianluca CoccoAssessorato della Difesa dell’Ambiente, Regione Autonomadella Sardegna Edward Cruickshank Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Meagan DooleyThe Brookings Institution Luca FarniaFondazione Eni Enrico Mattei Homi... By Brookings Institute, External Article Brookings Institute
report September 27, 2021 How does control of the seas affect global trade and security? The vast majority of global trade today moves by sea, so control of the world’s oceans has become critical for both commerce and security. In this episode, Brookings Senior Fellow Bruce Jones joins David Dollar to discuss evolutions in... By Brookings Institute, Global Trade Brookings Institute
report September 25, 2021 Africa in the news: Nigeria, climate change, and Tunisia updates COVID-19 maintains lingering economic disruption in Nigeria On Tuesday, Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics and the United Nations Development Program reported that approximately 20 percent of workers in Nigeria lost their jobs due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, the... By Brookings Institute, Post, Uncategorized Brookings Institute
report September 24, 2021 What’s next for poverty reduction policies in China? Earlier this year China’s government announced that it had eradicated absolute poverty, measured against a standard equivalent to $2.30 per person per day applied to rural areas. The latest Household Survey on Income, Expenditure and Living Conditions data by... By Brookings Institute, Post Brookings Institute
report September 24, 2021 A new proposal for the G-20 to strengthen the global financial safety net By Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly and Eswar Prasad Undoubtedly, the economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic will dominate the agenda for the G20 Summit in Rome in late October. The summit also presents an opportunity to lay the foundation for... By Brookings Institute, Op-Ed Brookings Institute
report September 24, 2021 The new child tax credit does more than just cut poverty With COVID-19’s disruptions in employment, child care, and education, it is unsurprising that child poverty substantially increased in 2020—roughly 1.2 million more children were living in poverty in 2020 when compared to 2019 (an increase from 15.7% to 17.5%).... By Brookings Institute, Post, Uncategorized Brookings Institute
report September 24, 2021 Can fintech improve health? Abstract Access to electronic financial services, in particular digital money, has replaced the digital divide as an unintended yet significant barrier for low-income individuals to participate in new technologies, including those that lead to better health outcomes. This paper explores... By Brookings Institute, Financial Regulation Brookings Institute
report September 23, 2021 Figure of the week: Internet freedom in sub-Saharan Africa declines On September 21, Freedom House released its 2021 Freedom on the Net report, its annual survey and analysis of internet freedom around the world. This report assesses 70 countries from various regions (13 from sub-Saharan Africa) on obstacles to... By Brookings Institute, Post Brookings Institute
report September 22, 2021 What do we know about the effects of COVID-19 on girls’ return to school? At its peak in 2020, COVID-19-related school closures affected more than 1 billion learners around the world. Girls’ education advocates feared the worst: Prolonged school closures and lockdowns would harm girls’ health and well-being, not to mention the continuity... By Brookings Institute, Post Brookings Institute
report September 22, 2021 Quantifying the impact on Nigeria of the African Continental Free Trade Area While there is a general optimism around the promise of the newly in-force African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), like any other free trade agreement (FTA), it will inevitably create winners and losers. This unequal distributional impact is a... By Brookings Institute, Post Brookings Institute
report September 20, 2021 How Arkansas implemented its computer science education program Computer science (CS) education helps students acquire skills such as computational thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration, among others. It has been linked with higher rates of college enrollment (Brown & Brown, 2020; Salehi et al., 2020), and a recent randomized... By Brookings Institute, Report Brookings Institute
report September 18, 2021 Africa in the news: Vaccine, energy, and climate change updates New South African tech transfer hub to replicate Moderna vaccine A tech transfer hub in South Africa established in June aims to replicate, with the aid of Moderna, the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, according to a senior official with the World... By Brookings Institute, Post, Uncategorized Brookings Institute
report September 16, 2021 Greening the AfCFTA: It is not too late Abstract Environmental sustainability is a key component of Africa’s Agenda 2063: The Africa We Want. Yet, the recently launched African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) contains only minimal references to the environment. This policy brief highlights various ways in which State... By Brookings Institute, Report Brookings Institute
report September 16, 2021 COVID-19: How can the G-20 address debt distress in sub-Saharan Africa? Kathrin BerensmannGerman Development Institute (DIE)Hopestone Kayiska ChavulaUN – Economic Commission for Africa Austin ChiumiaAfrican Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Mma Amara EkerucheCenter for the Study of the Economies of Africa (CSEA) Njuguna Ndung’uAfrican Economic Research Consortium (AERC) Aloysius Uche OrduAfrica Growth Initiative (AGI); (The... By Brookings Institute, External Article Brookings Institute
report September 16, 2021 Liberia improves in economic opportunity but still tax mobilization, infrastructure, and business environment struggle to see gains Good governance—according to the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, the provision of political, social and economic public goods and services that every citizen has the right to expect from their government—has been more crucial than ever before due to the COVID-19... By Brookings Institute, Post Brookings Institute
report September 15, 2021 How to kick-start the decoupling of emissions from economic growth in MENA The burning of organic materials (such as fossil fuels, wood, and waste) for heating/cooling, electricity, mobility, cooking, disposal, and the production of materials and goods (such as cement, metals, plastics, and food) leads to emissions. This affects local air... By Brookings Institute, Post Brookings Institute
report September 15, 2021 What can social media listening tell us about the desire for education change? The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted virtually every facet of life, including schooling for young people around the world. As students, teachers, and parents coped over the last year and a half with remote learning and the closing and reopening... By Brookings Institute, Report Brookings Institute
