Events from the Brookings Institution

By The Brookings Institution

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April 07, 2017 The role of the private sector in global sustainable development
On April 6, the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings co-hosted a panel discussion along with the United Nations Foundation on the role of the private sector in global sustainable development, with opening remarks from Lord Mark Malloch-Brown.

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1h 32min
April 07, 2017 Annual research and policy symposium: Skills for a changing world
On April 5, the Center for Universal Education at Brookings hosted its Annual Research and Policy Symposium, which marked the launch of "Skills for a Changing World: National Perspectives and the Global Movement," a new report on the current global, regional, and national level movement toward recognizing breadth of skills within education systems.

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6h 28min
April 07, 2017 Tax day headaches: Public understanding of the tax code and perceptions of “fairness”
Brookings fellow Vanessa Williamson presented new research on American taxpayers’ perceptions of the tax code as part of the second annual Lubick Symposium. This new research features results from a Tax Policy Center survey done in conjunction with the news website Vox.com. Williamson also discussed her recent book "Read My Lips:Why Americans Are Proud to Pay Taxes" on American’s perceptions of the tax system.

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2h 24min
April 05, 2017 Why Americans are proud to pay taxes
On April 4, Governance Studies at Brookings hosted an event marking the release of “Read My Lips: Why Americans are Proud to Pay Taxes” by Vanessa Williamson. A panel of experts discussed how Americans view their responsibility as taxpayers and what Americans’ attitudes about taxes can tell us about public opinions of government as a whole.

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1h 30min
March 31, 2017 Spurring private investment in health R&D around the world
On March 30, Governance Studies at Brookings hosted a panel of experts to discuss what conditions lead to good health governance and how those conditions affect a country’s ability to use private investments in health R&D. At the event, authors Darrell West and John Villasenor released their new paper, “Health governance capacity: Enhancing private sector investment in global health,” which examines 18 countries throughout Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. How compatible is each country’s health governance strategy with effective use of private investment in R&D?

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1h 16min
March 31, 2017 One year after the Panama Papers: Progress on anonymous corporate ownership?
On March 30, the Center on Regulation and Markets at Brookings hosted Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) for keynote remarks on efforts to end the use of anonymously owned corporations. A panel of experts and regulators followed his keynote remarks.

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1h 40min
March 31, 2017 China’s governance puzzle: Transparency and participation in a one-party state
On March 31, the Center for East Asia Policy Studies and The Asia Foundation co-hosted authors Jonathan Stromseth, Edmund Malesky, and Dimitar Gueorguiev of “China’s Governance Puzzle: Enabling Transparency and Participation in a Single-Party State” (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and featured a discussion by Wang Xixin.

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1h 30min
March 30, 2017 Fiscal politics: The IMF explores another side of public finance
On March 29, the Brookings Global Economy and Development Program co-hosted Vitor Gaspar, director of the IMF Fiscal Affairs Department, as well as his deputy and co-editor Sanjeev Gupta, for a short presentation of a new book by International Monetary Fund staff, “Fiscal Politics.”

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1h 28min
March 29, 2017 The 2016 Education Choice and Competition Index
On March 29, the Center on Children and Families released its fifth annual Education Choice and Competition Index (ECCI)—a ranking of school choice in the nation’s 100 largest school districts. Following a presentation of the research by Brookings Senior Fellow Russ Whitehurst, U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos gave keynote remarks.

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1h 8min
March 29, 2017 Tackling the 'Water Problem': Challenges facing U.S. regulation, sustainability, and global geopolitics
On March 28, the Cross-Brookings Initiative on Energy and Climate and the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, hosted a half-day conference on key issues in water policy. This event celebrated the launch of the new Brookings Press book The Water Problem: Climate Change and Water Policy in the United States, edited by UNLV/Brookings Senior Fellow Pat Mulroy.

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3h 55min

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The podcast currently has 978 episodes available.