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March 7, 2024

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Ramadan Cease-Fire Prospects, Portugal’s Snap Election, Oscars Go International, and More

Negotiators attempt to establish a six-week cease-fire and hostage exchange deal between Israel and Hamas before the start of the sacred Islamic month of Ramadan; Portugal holds a snap parliamentary …

Podcast U.S. Air Force members work on the preparation of a humanitarian aid drop for Gaza residents on March 5, 2024.
Podcast by Robert McMahon and Carla Anne Robbins The World Next Week

December 5, 2014

Middle East and North Africa
Mobile Technology and Entrepreneurship in the Middle East: A Conversation with Christopher M. Schroeder

This meeting of the Roundtable Series on Digital Policy discusses the importance of communications policy in creating robust infrastructure for entrepreneurship in the Middle East.

Podcast
Event by Christopher M. Schroeder and Karen Kornbluh

June 1, 2016

Development
Revitalizing Economic Growth in the Twenty-First Century: A Conversation with Kweilin Ellingrud and Christopher Ruhm

According to a new McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) report, advancing women’s equality could add $12 trillion to GDP by 2025. This seminal report, entitled “The Power of Parity,” is the product of res…

Podcast Migrant Construction Workers in Shanghai
Event by Kweilin M. Ellingrud, Christopher Ruhm, and Rachel B. Vogelstein Women and Foreign Policy Program

November 19, 2012

Development
Poland’s Economic Model

Poland has maintained economic growth despite the global financial crisis and eurozone woes, while asserting itself as a leading advocate for greater European integration.

Stock exchange figures are displayed above clocks with time from around the world at Warsaw Stock Exchange.
Backgrounder by Christopher Alessi

May 17, 2013

South Africa
South Africa’s Economic Fault Lines

South Africa in the post-apartheid period has registered steady growth, but mounting problems over inequality threaten the continent’s economic engine.

Girls stand outside shacks made from metal in Cape Town's Khayelitsha township.
Backgrounder by Christopher Alessi