Brookings Institution

Building off a 2018 Brookings report that profiled the newly launched DC Infrastructure Academy, this piece aims to further contextualize and demystify what these academies are attempting to do by focusing on a new example in Austin, Texas.

These findings suggest considerable support across partisan divides for placing American carbon tariffs on imports (68% in agreement), American prioritization of greenhouse gas emissions in trade negotiations (78% in agreement), and American fealty to international trade pacts (79% in agreement).

The Hutchins Center Fiscal Impact Measure shows how much local, state, and federal tax and spending policy adds to or subtracts from overall economic growth, and provides a near-term forecast of fiscal policies’ effects on economic activity.

The two youngest generations of Americans will continue to have an impact in the upcoming elections, just as they did in 2022.

A Trump win in November could be the ultimate manifestation of this elevated geopolitical risk. More U.S. tariffs could see the dollar soar, putting emerging markets’ pegs under severe pressure.

In collaboration with the Financial Times (FT), Eswar Prasad of Brookings and Caroline Smiltneks of Cornell have constructed a set of composite indexes that track the global economic recovery.

The World Bank’s International Development Association (IDA) replenishment cycle occurs every three years and drives significant development results in the world’s poorest countries.

The Inflation Reduction Act, or IRA, is one of President Biden’s signature pieces of legislation.

High inflation in recent years has prompted reconsideration of policies for stabilizing prices.