report October 20, 2021 Navigating the debt legacy of the pandemic COVID-19 has left a legacy of record-high debt and shifted the trade-offs between benefits and costs of accumulating government debt. How do these trade-offs manifest themselves? And how does the current debt boom compare with previous episodes? We argue that the debt legacy of the pandemic is exceptional by historical standards in a way that warrants prompt policy action. The... By Brookings Institute, Post Brookings Institute
report October 20, 2021 Navigating the debt legacy of the pandemic COVID-19 has left a legacy of record-high debt and shifted the trade-offs between benefits and costs of accumulating government debt. How do these trade-offs manifest themselves? And how does the current debt boom compare with previous episodes? We argue that the debt legacy of the pandemic is exceptional by historical standards in a way that warrants prompt policy action. The... By Brookings Institute, Post Brookings Institute
report October 20, 2021 Renforcer les capacités en lecture et calcul des enfants en Côte d’Ivoire Avant même que la COVID-19 ait laissé 1,6 milliard d’élèves non scolarisés au début de 2020, des millions d’enfants et de jeunes dans le monde n’avaient pas accès à l’éducation de qualité dont ils avaient besoin pour mener une vie saine, sure et productive. Pire encore, les enfants les plus pauvres et les plus marginalisés continuent d’être les plus... By Brookings Institute, Report Brookings Institute
report October 20, 2021 Improving children’s reading and math at large scale in Côte d’Ivoire Even before COVID-19 left as many as 1.6 billion students out of school in early 2020, millions of children and youth around the world did not have access to the quality education they needed to lead healthy, safe, and productive lives. Even worse, the poorest and most marginalized children continue to be most affected by this learning crisis, losing... By Brookings Institute, Report Brookings Institute
report October 19, 2021 Understanding child-friendly urban design More than half of the world’s children are growing up in cities. By 2030, up to 60 percent of the world’s urban population will be under 18 years old. Yet, children and families are often invisible to urban planners, developers, and architects when creating city-wide policies that impact transportation, air and noise pollution, and health and well-being. “The truth... By Brookings Institute, Report Brookings Institute
report October 19, 2021 Leveraging the Biden-Harris climate agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals In November, at the COP26 U.N. Climate Change Conference, the U.S. will join the community of nations keeping alive the promise to meet the agreed target to limit global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to preindustrial levels. The Biden administration will continue to work to reestablish U.S. leadership and increase global commitments for tackling climate change amid... By Brookings Institute, Report Brookings Institute
report October 18, 2021 Moving beyond GDP: Sustainability, resilience, and inclusiveness for economic development What is the best way to assess a nation’s prosperity, not just today but into the future? Growing concerns about climate change, rising inequality, unsustainable resource use, and destruction of nature highlight the need for new economic tools to ensure development is sustainable, resilient, and inclusive. Gross domestic product (GDP), the conventional measure of economic progress, overlooks many vital... By Brookings Institute, Event Brookings Institute
report October 15, 2021 Cautious optimism on the road to Glasgow At the beginning of the summer, I noted how the climate-change narrative had changed in recent years, thanks to tremendous technological progress that has made green energy more competitive and often less costly than older carbon-based technologies. This is certainly true for new power investments, although for a while it will still be cheaper to produce electricity from older assets... By Brookings Institute, Op-Ed Brookings Institute
report October 15, 2021 20211015 Thomson Reuters Foundation Aloysius Uche Ordu Africa is the world's breadbasket—or should be. It has vast arable land, grows a wide variety of crops and has vast irrigation potential with seven major rivers. Yet, Africa imported $43 billion worth of food items in 2019. Digital technologies ... are eliminating the traditional inefficiencies of smallholder food production and helping to close the yield gap.... By Brookings Institute, Media Mention Brookings Institute
report October 15, 2021 Improving learning and life skills for marginalized children Even before COVID-19 shuttered schools around the world, rapidly expanding access to high-quality learning opportunities for all children was critically needed. The pandemic has only exacerbated the magnitude, inequity, and urgency of this need. While many innovations exist—often emerging outside the formal education system—the question has increasingly become how to scale and sustain those that are most effective at... By Brookings Institute, Report Brookings Institute
