Current Affairs
Thursday Mar 8th, 2012
Can employment opportunities transform women’s work and family lives?
In many developing countries, women often leave school, marry and start having children at a young age. For example, in India, less than half of girls aged 11-18 are enrolled in school. By age 18, nearly 60 percent of women are married and over a quarter have given birth. These outcomes are powerful indicators of the low social and economic progress of women, and may have consequences for poverty and income growth. It is therefore important to understand… read more »
Tuesday May 8th, 2012
Philip Auerswald on driving innovation today
Video interviews with author Philip Auerswald
Monday May 7th, 2012
The growth of the Giving Pledge and the federal estate tax
Taxation and social overhead
Wednesday Apr 11th, 2012
The rise and decline of the American ‘Empire’
Power and its limits in comparative perspective: now the predictions all focus on China overtaking the US
