A think tank is an organization that gathers a group of interdisciplinary scholars to perform research around particular policies, issues or ideas. Topics addressed in think tanks can cover a wide range, including social policy, public policy, economic policy, political strategy, culture and technolog...
On July 13th the Brookings Institution, a think-tank, presents the results of the world's first large development-impact bond, which paid for girls' education in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan. In this novel way of funding charitable work, a financial institution gives money to a char...
According to the University of Pennsylvania's rankings, the top-rated think tank in the world is the Brookings Institution in the United States.2 The university explains in their Global Go Think Tank Index that the top economic think tanks provide superior, innovative research and strategic analysi...
4Darrell West of the Brookings Institution, a think-tank, estimates that in 2015-2016 Internet shutdowns ordered by governments cost countries at least $2.4bn.5 A.Turning off the Internet is expensive. B.Teachers try to help — in their own way. ...
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(53) Nicholas Lardy of the Brookings Institution, a Washington D. C.-based think tank, "No country has expanded its foreign trade as fast as China over the last 20 years. Japan doubled its foreign trade over (54) ; (55) foreign trade as quintupled. They’re become the preeminent prod...
Theoretically, said Katharine Meyer, a fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank, “We’re going to see a less racially diverse college enrollment cohort, a less socioeconomically diverse college enrollment cohort.” Areas with a high percentage of people living in poverty and places with ...
Hanna Love is a Brookings Metro fellow at the Brookings Institution, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, D.C. Amy Liu is a senior Brookings fellow and co-founder of Brookings Metro, whose mission is to promote prosperous, just and resilient communities.Tags...
"Abiy’s government is unlikely to survive a sustained mass uprising in the Amhara region, especially given the mounting political and economic crisis around the country," said Addisu Lashitew, a fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank. Amhara residents said Fano fighters had inflicted som...