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Brookings Institution
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Partisanship On Capitol Hill
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Brookings takes an in-depth look at the polarizing effects of partisanship on Capitol Hill. Senior Fellow assesses the situation and offers some insight into how this way of doing business will...
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Campaign Finance Reform
January 15, 2010, 12:00am PST
The presenter says the past few elections have shown that the new power of small donors is a promising way to bring more people into the political process and dilute the influence of deep-pocket...
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President Barack Obama On Jobs And Economic Growth
December 11, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, President Barack Obama presented his plan for creating jobs and spurring economic growth. The president outlined a package that includes tax incentives for small businesses, more...
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President Obamas Afghanistan Plan; The Reconfirmation Of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke
December 4, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, President Obama's plan for a troop surge and timeline for withdrawal from Afghanistan has drawn criticism from the left and the right - the presenter says it's a necessary but...
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The Global Financial Crisis Affects On Metropolitan Regions; Prospects For A "Double" Dip Recession
November 20, 2009, 12:00am PST
One of the presenters discusses how the worldwide financial crisis is hitting major metropolitan areas, and proposes policies that can help at a Brookings event with other presenter. Brookings...
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President Obamas Trip To Asia; U.S. Senate Considers New Financial Oversight
November 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
One of the presenters says that President Obama's first meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao will encompass a global agenda that includes North Korea's nuclear ambitions and the instability of...
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Previewing President Obamas Trip To China; Climate Change Legislation In Congress.
November 6, 2009, 12:00am PST
One of the presenters came to Brookings to preview President Obama's upcoming trip to China and the issues he will face; while the other presenter, an expert on climate change and related global...
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Lifting Families Out Of Poverty; The Great Depression And The Current Economic Crisis
October 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Brookings experts say encouraging marriage before having children is one of the keys that can lift families out of poverty, while the other presenter says that while today's economic crisis is...
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Rep. Jane Harman On Afghanistan; Economic Opportunity In America
October 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
One of the presenters says the United States must help Afghanistan root out public corruption and establish trust in a democratic regime, while the other presenter says too few resources have been...
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Economic Recovery; Missile Defense; Un General Assembly
September 18, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The recession may finally be at an end, Federal Reserve Chairman told a Brookings audience, but the recovery may be slow - especially for Americans who have lost their jobs in the current...
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Vice President Joe Biden On The Stimulus Package; Congress Legislative Agenda; And Afghanistan
September 4, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Amid conflicting economic messages, Vice President offers a working perspective on the implementation of the stimulus package; and other presenter forecasts that Congress will return to an agenda...
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Elections In Afghanistan; Budget Deficit
August 28, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Brookings experts voice concern over the still-not-decided Afghanistan elections, where a battered citizenry needs a signal that democracy can succeed; and longtime budget watcher warns of the...
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Elections In Afghanistan; The H1N1 Flu Virus; The Economic Recession
August 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, Afghanistan expert addresses the integrity of the elections in Afghanistan, while the other presenter discusses projections for return of the H1N1 "Swine" flu virus in the fall...
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Economic Stimulus; Afghanistan Election; Health Care Town Halls
August 14, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, a Brookings panel weighs in on whether the stimulus plan, now six months old, has been a boon for the economy or not; the presenter explains what the presidential election in...
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President Obamas First Six Months In Office; Kurdish Elections In Iraq
July 31, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, Brookings experts release a composite index of national and global trends for the first six months of President Obama's term, lining them up against the same point in the five...
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The Sotomayor Confirmation Hearings; Two Housing Secretaries On Urban Revitalization
July 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is likely to be confirmed, but may have set a troubling precedent for future Obama nominees, says Brookings expert; and Housing Secretary joins former...
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U.S. Troops Withdraw From Iraq; The Economic Recession And Prospects For Recovery
July 2, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Iraqis celebrate as U.S. Forces withdraw from their cities and expert discusses the prospects for peace and self-governance in Iraq; the man on the street reacts to the troop withdrawal. Also, the...
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Iran; Cash For Clunkers; The Federal Deficit
June 26, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Brookings scholars ponder the developments in Iran as the government cracks down on protests over the presidential election; the public weighs in on the "Cash for clunkers" legislation; and vice...
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The Newspaper Industry; Polling The Arab World; And CAFE Standards
May 22, 2009, 12:00am PDT
With newspapers going under and declaring bankruptcy, one of the presenters debates the future of the industry with the vice president and director of the Governance Studies program at Brookings;...
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Afghanistans Karzai; U.S.-Russian Nukes; Supreme Court Nominee
May 8, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, Afghan President talks on the role his country plays vis-à-vis the U.S. and Iran; Brookings experts, discuss renewed nuclear arms control talks with Russia under the Obama...
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President Obamas First 100 Days, The IMF
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Brookings experts look back on the first 100 days of the Obama presidency, assessing his foreign and domestic policy moves; the International Monetary Fund needs a change in leadership to meet the...
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Global Financial Recovery, Climate Change
April 24, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, Brookings experts along with Silver Lake CEO, examine the best way forward for economic recovery; one of the presenters also take on global warming and climate change; and the man...
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Summit Of The Americas; Tax Reform; And Economic Stimulus
April 17, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, experts discuss what's at stake for President Barack Obama at the Summit of the Americas; one of the presenters, vice president & director of Economic Studies at Brookings, talks...
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Lawrence Summers On The Economy; Iraq; Corporate Bailouts
March 20, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, White House National Economic Council Director one of the presenters explain the administration's plan for restoring fiscal solvency while Senior Fellow the other presenter asses...
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Examining Long-Term Fiscal Challenges; Waging War With Robots
February 13, 2009, 12:00am PST
In this webcast, Brookings budget and governance experts discuss the budget deficit and long-term fiscal challenges facing the United States. And one of the presenters discusses the amazing...
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White Papers
Constraints On Leadership In Washington
July 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
It is commonplace today to assert that American politics and governance are dysfunctional. In many respects, the received wisdom is correct. The authors survived the most severe financial crisis...
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Resetting U.S.-Russian Leadership On Nuclear Arms Reductions And Non-Proliferation
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
U.S.-Russian relations have been "Reset" over the past eleven months, and the renewed bilateral negotiations on reducing strategic nuclear forces have played a major role in this. At the beginning...
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The Origins Of The Financial Crisis
November 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The financial crisis that has been wreaking havoc in markets in the U.S. and across the world since August 2007 had its origins in an asset price bubble that interacted with new kinds of financial...
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Political Finance And State Funding Systems: An Overview
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The relation between money and politics has come to be one of the great problems of democratic government. Thus James Kerr Pollock opened his pioneering study of political finance practices in...
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Building A Global Financial Center In Shanghai
June 1, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The government of the People's Republic of China has set a goal of turning Shanghai into a true global financial center by 2020, a target with which the municipal government of Shanghai is in...
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The Government's Role In The Housing Finance System: Where Do We Go From Here?
April 14, 2011, 12:00am PDT
It is time to commit to a future housing finance system for the United States as the current uncertainty surrounding this issue is likely deterring the recovery of the housing market and the...
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Addressing Export Control in the Age of Cloud Computing
July 25, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Cloud computing is reshaping the landscape with respect to business, government, university, and consumer information technologies, delivering increased flexibility and improved cost efficiencies...
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Low Wages And High Unemployment For U.S. Men
August 19, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this webcast, the presenter discusses disturbing trends for men in the U.S. work force today: nearly one man in five is unemployed, wages for men who do have jobs are historically low, and...
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A Copenhagen Collar: Achieving Comparable Effort Through Carbon Price Agreements
August 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The financial crisis and deep recession illustrate the unforeseen macroeconomic conditions through which climate policy must endure if it is to stabilize concentrations of greenhouse gases over...
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The Economics Of Infrastructure In A Globalized World: Issues, Lessons And Future Challenges
June 4, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The massive fiscal stimulus in the wake of the global financial crisis has refocused the international community onto the nature and role of infrastructure spending. Although this type of spending...
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The Politics Of Economic Insecurity
September 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Recent media reports suggest a rising tide of economic populism among presidential candidates and voters. In newspapers' business sections, personal finance columnists offer advice for avoiding...
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Reform Of Global Governance: Priorities For Action
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Global institutions are not working well individually and as a group. For example, the global institutions at the core of the international system, such as the United Nations, the International...
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Public Policies To Alter The Use Of Alternative Financial Services Among Low-Income households.
March 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
A substantial number of low-income individuals make use of services within the Alternative Financial Sector (AFS), particularly pay-day lenders and check cashing outlets. Pay-day lending has grown...
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Periodic Payment Of The Earned Income Tax Credit
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
There has been a shift over the last two decades in public policies designed to provide income support to impoverished households. A focus on encouraging and supporting work has guided this shift,...
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A Brief Guide: To Fixing Finance
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Whatever steps are taken in the short run to address the current financial crisis, there is at least broad consensus that financial regulatory and supervisory reform is needed to dramatically...
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Making The Rescue Package Work: Asset And Equity Purchases
October 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
If the main purpose of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 is to give banks confidence in each other, then enabling Treasury directly to bolster the capital positions of banks that...
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Economic Recovery And The EITC: Expanding The Earned Income Tax Credit To Benefit Families And Places
January 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
The economic recovery package currently under consideration by the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as corresponding legislation before the Senate Finance committee, includes a number of tax...
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Financial Globalization And Economic Policies
April 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors review the large literature on various economic policies that could help developing economies effectively manage the process of financial globalization. The central findings indicate...
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Thresholds In The Process Of International Financial Integration
May 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The financial crisis has re-ignited the fierce debate about the merits of financial globalization and its implications for growth, especially for developing countries. The empirical literature has...
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What Happens To The GM Pensions In Bankruptcy?
May 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
General Motors (GM) will almost certainly file for bankruptcy next week, triggering the next stage in the ongoing fight to see who will bear the costs of making the company financially viable...
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Humanitarian Perspectives On "Protection Of Persons In The Event Of Disasters"
April 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The author focuses the outset this paper as a very useful compilation of relevant international law, bilateral treaties; various General Assembly resolutions, guidelines, etc. (For example, while...
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Know Thy Neighbor: What Canada Can Tell Us About Financial Regulation
April 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Policy-makers in the Obama administration and Congress are designing a new regulatory architecture for the nation's financial system. As they toil on this daunting project, they might consider...
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Monetary Policy Challenges For Emerging Market Economies
August 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the main issues, linking them to broader debates in the academic literature as well as an assessment of how individual countries have chosen to...
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Data And The Financial Crisis: How Might We Do Better Next Time?
December 16, 2009, 12:00am PST
To set the stage, the author defines what his mean by financial-crisis-related data needs. The author referring to the need for data that speak to the following three questions: How do we...
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A New Strategy To Leverage Business For International Development
May 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Global poverty is as intractable as ever, despite decades of public and private sector efforts to provide help and opportunity for the world's most vulnerable people. The fact that every major...
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The Future Of Small Business Overview Of The Brookings - Small Business Administration's Working Group Session
March 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The paper focused on establishing a framework for the design of public policy decisions to support job creation through small businesses with high growth potential. It was intended as the first...
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Russia After The Global Financial Crisis
May 10, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Two prominent American specialists on the Russian economy present a fundamental analysis of basic economic factors explaining how the global financial crisis has played out in Russia and its...
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Financial Reform: Now It's Up To The Regulators
July 12, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The simpler half of financial reform will be completed shortly with the passage of the Dodd?]Frank financial reform bill and its receipt of the president's signature. Hard as it may be to...
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Priority No. 1: Creating An Agenda To Spur Job-Creating Economic Growth
July 20, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Events in the United States are confirming what scholars have concluded: economic downturns driven by financial crises differ fundamentally from classic cyclical recessions. Because a massive...
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Attention: Deficit - Should Progressives Embrace Entitlement Reform? Or Look Elsewhere To Narrow The Gap? An Exchange Between Two Leading Fiscal Experts
September 2, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The growth of entitlements is on an unsustainable path. If allowed to continue, spending on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid will require untenable tax increases, crowd out almost all other...
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The Next Economy And The Growth Challenge For The United States
September 30, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In 1999-2000, the Administration of President Clinton was celebrating an era of unusually strong economic growth with both strong productivity gains and employment gains. The unemployment rate was...
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Putting America To Work: The Essential Role Of Federal Labor Market Statistics
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
All Americans deserve the opportunity to have an occupation that provides a decent standard of living. Increasingly, earning a middle class income requires that workers have a postsecondary...
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Does Fairness Matter In Global Governance?
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Worldwide, there has been a recent increase in expressions of cynicism. The authors are reminded that all power is hard power, and that being loved or respected is no substitute for being feared....
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Background Paper For Panel 1: Getting Out Of The Downturn While Ensuring The Future - The U.S. Situation
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The U.S. economy is growing, but not very rapidly considering the depth of the recession. Over the second and third quarters GDP is estimated to have risen at an average annual rate of about 2...
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Some Thoughts On EU Financial Reforms
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
In the context of a transatlantic comparison, the first thing to be mentioned is the difference between the time sequence of financial reforms in the EU and its equivalent in the US. The financial...
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Some Thoughts On US Financial Reforms
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
The financial system around the globe faces massive changes to its regulation. Although it seems fashionable for virtually everyone outside of government to talk down the financial reforms that...
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Online Identity And Consumer Trust: Assessing Online Risk
January 11, 2011, 12:00am PST
As the Internet continues to evolve into a more social and interactive space, new threats to online consumers emerge. Beyond the now commonplace malware, these threats target the relationship...
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Responding To The New Geography Of Poverty: Metropolitan Trends In The Earned Income Tax Credit
February 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
As an increasing number of Americans struggle to get by with less, federal supports like the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) - a refundable tax credit for taxpayers who work but earn low incomes -...
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Steps to Improve Cloud Computing in the Public Sector
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
Government information technology is subject to a variety of rules, regulations, and procurement policies. Computing is treated differently depending on whether the platform is based on desktops,...
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Cloud Cube Model: Selecting Cloud Formations for Secure Collaboration
April 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The U.S. federal government spends nearly $76 billion each year on information technology, and $20 billion of that is devoted to hardware, software, and file servers (Alford and Morton, 2009)....
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Saving Money Through Cloud Computing
April 7, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The US federal government spends nearly billions each year on information technology. And traditionally, computing services have been delivered through desktops or laptops operated by proprietary...
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