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Policy Briefs

Title: Uncharted Strait
Authors: Richard C. Bush III
Date: January 2013

Title: More Prisoners Versus More Crime is the Wrong Question
Authors: Philip J. Cook, Jens Ludwig
Date: December 2011

Title: Korea, Colombia, Panama: Pending Trade Accords Offer Economic and Strategic Gains for the United States
Authors: Mauricio Cárdenas, Joshua Meltzer
Date: July 2011

Title: Protecting Civilians in Disasters and Conflicts
Authors: Elizabeth Ferris
Date: March 2011

Title: Opportunity through Education: Two Proposals
Authors: Grover J. "Russ" Whitehurst
Date: March 2011

Title: Improving Afghan War Strategy
Authors: Michael E. O’Hanlon
Date: February 2011

Title: Adjusting to China: A Challenge to the U.S. Manufacturing Sector
Authors: Martin Neil Baily
Date: January 2011

Title: China-Japan Security Relations
Date: October 2010

Title: The Drag on India's Military Growth
Date: September 2010

Title: The Future of Small Business Entrepreneurship: Jobs Generator for the U.S. Economy
Authors: Martin Neil Baily, Karen Dynan, Douglas J. Elliott
Date: June 2010

Title: Spurring Innovation Through Education: Four Ideas
Authors: Grover J. (Russ) Whitehurst
Date: June 2010

Title: Hubs of Transformation: Leveraging the Great Lakes Research Complex for Energy Innovation
Authors: James Duderstadt, Mark Muro, Sarah Rahman
Date: June 2010

Title: Economic Growth and Institutional Innovation: Outlines of a Reform Agenda
Authors: William A. Galston
Date: June 2010

Title: The Obama Administration's New Counternarcotics Strategy in Afghanistan: Its Promises and Potential Pitfalls
Authors: Vanda Felbab-Brown
Date: September 2009

Title: Is the G-20 Summit a Step Toward a New Global Economic Order?
Authors: Colin I. Bradford, Johannes F. Linn, Director
Date: September 2009

Title: A Global Fund for Education: Achieving Education for All
Authors: David Gartner
Date: August 2009

Title: Strengthen the Millennium Challenge Corporation: Better Results are Possible
Authors: Lex Rieffel, James W. Fox
Date: December 2008

Title: Global Governance Breakthrough: The G20 Summit and the Future Agenda
Authors: Colin I. Bradford, Johannes F. Linn, Paul Martin
Date: December 2008

Title: Changing the Game: The Federal Role in Supporting 21st Century Educational Innovation
Authors: Sara Mead, Andrew J. Rotherham
Date: October 2008

Title: Bridging the Social Security Divide: Lessons From Abroad
Authors: R. Kent Weaver
Date: June 2008

Title: A Bridge to Somewhere: Rethinking American Transportation for the 21st Century
Authors: Robert Puentes
Date: June 2008

Title: Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America
Authors: Marilyn A. Brown, Frank Southworth, Andrea Sarzynski
Date: May 2008

Title: Clusters and Competitiveness: A New Federal Role for Stimulating Regional Economies
Authors: Karen G. Mills, Elisabeth B. Reynolds, Andrew Reamer
Date: April 2008

Title: Can Raúl Castro Revive Cuba's Private Sector?
Date: March 2008

Title: Reform of Global Governance: Priorities for Action
Authors: Colin Bradford, Johannes Linn
Date: October 2007

Title: Credit Crisis: The Sky is not Falling
Authors: Anthony Downs
Date: October 2007

Title: Global Service Fellowships: Building Bridges through American Volunteers
Authors: John Bridgeland, David L. Caprara, Harris Wofford
Date: July 2007

Title: A Diplomatic Offensive for Iraq
Authors: Larry Diamond, Carlos Pascual
Date: June 2007

Title: How to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions Now
Authors: Elena Fagotto, Mary Graham
Date: May 2007

Title: More COPS
Authors: John J. Donohue III, Jens Ludwig
Date: March 2007

Title: Global Service Fellowships: Building Bridges through American Volunteers
Authors: John Bridgeland, David Capara, Harris Wofford
Date: March 2007

Title: Beyond Microfinance: Getting Capital to Small and Medium Enterprises to Fuel Faster Development
Authors: David de Ferranti, Anthony J. Ody
Date: March 2007

Title: The Vital Center: A Federal-State Compact to Renew the Great Lakes Region
Authors: Britany Affolter-Caine, Justin Austin
Date: October 2006

Title: The Russian Federation
Authors: Igor Danchenko, Clifford G. Gaddy, Fiona Hill, Dmitry Ivanov
Date: October 2006

Title: The Economic Potential of American Cities
Authors: Bruce Katz
Date: October 2006

Title: Leaders Among Us: Developing a Community Health Worker Program in Washington, D.C.
Authors: Kathy Patrick, Martha Ross
Date: October 2006

Title: Katrina Index: October Findings
Authors: Matt Fellowes, Amy Liu, Mia Mabanta
Date: October 2006

Title: How Well Are American Students Learning?
Authors: Tom Loveless
Date: October 2006

Title: Health Status and Access to Care Among Low-Income Washington, D.C. Residents
Authors: Nicole Lurie, Martha Ross
Date: October 2006

Title: Finding Exurbia: America's Fast-Growing Communities at the Metropolitan Fringe
Authors: Alan Berube, William H. Frey, Audrey Singer, Jill H. Wilson
Date: October 2006

Title: Charting Maine's Future: An Action Plan for Promoting Sustainable Prosperity and Quality Places
Date: October 2006

Title: From 'There' to 'Here': Refugee Resettlement in Metropolitan America
Authors: Audrey Singer, Jill H. Wilson
Date: September 2006

Title: Enhancing Development through Better Use of Public Resources: How Independent Watchdog Groups Can Help
Authors: David de Ferranti, Charles Griffin, Justin Jacinto, Anthony J. Ody, Nick Warren
Date: September 2006

Title: Reforming Tax Incentives into Uniform Refundable Tax Credits
Authors: Lily L. Batchelder, Jr. Fred T. Goldberg, Peter R. Orszag
Date: August 2006

Title: International Volunteering: Smart Power
Authors: Lex Rieffel, Sarah Zalud
Date: June 2006

Title: Untangling China's Quest for Oil through State-backed Financial Deals
Authors: Erica S. Downs, Peter C. Evans
Date: May 2006

Title: The Effects of Investing in Early Education on Economic Growth
Authors: William T. Dickens, Isabel V. Sawhill, Jeffrey Tebbs
Date: April 2006

Title: Reducing Unwed Childbearing: The Missing Link in Efforts to Promote Marriage
Authors: Andrea Kane, Daniel T. Lichter
Date: April 2006

Title: Pragmatic Reform of Global Governance: Creating an L20 Summit Forum
Authors: Colin I. Bradford Jr., Johannes F. Linn
Date: April 2006

Title: Preparing for Future "Katrinas"
Authors: Robert E. Litan
Date: March 2006

Title: Building Automatic Solvency into U.S. Social Security: Insights from Sweden and Germany
Authors: James C. Capretta
Date: March 2006

Title: The Decline of the Underclass
Authors: Paul A. Jargowsky, Isabel V. Sawhill
Date: January 2006

Title: Autism and Hope
Authors: Help Group
Date: January 2006

Title: Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease: What Does Rationing Do?
Authors: Henry J. Aaron
Date: December 2005

Title: Treatment of Coronary Artery Disease: What Does Rationing Do?
Authors: Henry J. Aaron
Date: December 2005

Title: No Child Left Behind: How to give It a Passing Grade
Authors: Martin R. West
Date: December 2005

Title: High Cost or High Opportunity Cost? Transportation and Family Economic Success
Authors: Margy Waller
Date: December 2005

Title: Health Care Rationing: What it Means
Authors: Henry J. Aaron
Date: December 2005

Title: Block Grants: Flexibility vs. Stability in Social Services
Authors: Margy Waller
Date: December 2005

Title: Why Federalism Matters
Authors: Pietro S. Nivola
Date: October 2005

Title: The Well-Being of Single-Mother Families After Welfare Reform
Authors: Bruce D. Meyer, James X. Sullivan
Date: August 2005

Title: Nigeria's Paris Club Debt Problem
Authors: Lex Rieffel
Date: August 2005

Title: Moving Toward Smarter Aid
Authors: James W. Fox, Lex Rieffel
Date: August 2005

Title: Rumsfeld's Revolution at Defense
Authors: Paul C. Light
Date: July 2005

Title: Insuring America's Workers in a New Era of Offshoring
Authors: Lael Brainard, Robert E. Litan, Nicholas Warren
Date: July 2005

Title: Insuring America's Workers in a New Era of Offshoring
Authors: Lael Brainard, Robert E. Litan, Nicholas Warren
Date: July 2005

Title: Can the U.S. Government Live Within Its Means? Lessons from Abroad
Authors: Allen Schick
Date: June 2005

Title: Individual Development Accounts: Policies to Build Savings and Assets for the Poor
Authors: Ray Boshara
Date: March 2005

Title: Thinking About Political Polarization
Authors: Pietro S. Nivola
Date: January 2005

Title: The Challenge of Achieving High Work Participation Rates in Welfare Programs
Authors: LaDonna Pavetti
Date: October 2004

Title: Financial Access for Immigrants: Learning from Diverse Perspectives
Authors: Anna Paulson, Audrey Singer
Date: October 2004

Title: The Political Economy of Nuclear Energy in the United States
Authors: Pietro S. Nivola
Date: September 2004

Title: The Future of State-Owned Financial Institutions
Authors: Gerard Caprio, Jonathan Fiechter, Robert E. Litan, Michael Pomerleano
Date: September 2004

Title: Offshoring, Import Competition, and the Jobless Recovery
Authors: Charles L. Schultze
Date: August 2004

Title: Law of the Sea Convention: Should the U.S. Join?
Authors: David B. Sandalow
Date: August 2004

Title: Improving the Saver’s Credit
Authors: William G. Gale, Peter R. Orszag
Date: July 2004

Title: Bush and Kerry: Questions About Governing Styles
Authors: Charles O. Jones
Date: June 2004

Title: Trade Agreements and Labor Standards
Authors: Theodore H. Moran
Date: May 2004

Title: Encouraging Job Advancement Among Low-Wage Workers: A New Approach
Authors: Harry J. Holzer
Date: May 2004

Title: Global Economic Governance at a Crossroads: Replacing the G-7 with the G-20
Authors: Colin I. Jr. Bradford, Johannes F. Linn
Date: April 2004

Title: "Offshoring" Service Jobs: Bane or Boon and What to Do?
Authors: Lael Brainard, Robert E. Litan
Date: April 2004

Title: Waive of the Future? Federalism and the Next Phase of Welfare Reform
Authors: Pietro S. Nivola, Jennifer L. Noyes, Isabel V. Sawhill
Date: March 2004

Title: The Insurance Industry in America
Authors: Richard J. Herring, Robert E. Litan
Date: March 2004

Title: How to Balance the Budget
Authors: Alice M. Rivlin, Isabel V. Sawhi
Date: March 2004

Title: Traffic: Why It's Getting Worse, What Government Can Do
Authors: Anthony Downs
Date: January 2004

Title: The Uncertain Future of the Telecommunications Industry
Authors: Robert E. Litan, Roger G. Noll
Date: January 2004

Title: To Give or Not to Give: The Crisis of Confidence in Charities
Authors: Paul C. Light
Date: December 2003

Title: Reconsidering the Peace Corps
Authors: Lex Rieffel
Date: December 2003

Title: A Call for Urgent Action on the Displacement Crisis in the Darfur Region of the Sudan
Authors: Francis Deng
Date: December 2003

Title: Work and Marriage: The Way to End Poverty and Welfare
Authors: Ron Haskins, Isabel V. Sawhill
Date: September 2003

Title: Making the Millennium Challenge Account Work for Africa
Authors: Lael Brainard, Allison Driscoll
Date: September 2003

Title: Higher Education Spending: The Role of Medicaid and the Business Cycle
Authors: Thomas J. Kane, Peter R. Orszag
Date: September 2003

Title: Building Intelligence to Fight Terrorism
Authors: Andrew Eggers, Mary Graham, James B. Steinberg
Date: September 2003

Title: Fiscal Millstones on the Cities: Revisiting the Problem of Federal Mandates
Authors: Pietro S. Nivola
Date: August 2003

Title: The Future of Head Start
Authors: Ron Haskins, Isabel Sawhill
Date: July 2003

Title: Tax Reform for Families: An Earned Income Child Credit
Authors: Adam Carasso, Jeffrey Rohaly, C. Eugene Steuerle
Date: July 2003

Title: Africa's Economic Morass—Will a Common Currency Help?
Authors: Paul Masson, Heather Milkiewicz
Date: July 2003

Title: The Promise of National Service: A (Very) Brief History of an Idea
Authors: E.J. Dionne, Kayla Meltzer Drogosz
Date: June 2003

Title: Greening U.S. Foreign Aid through the Millennium Challenge Account
Authors: Nigel Purvis
Date: June 2003

Title: An Economic Perspective on Urban Education
Authors: William Gale, Megan McNally, Janet Rothenberg Pack
Date: June 2003

Title: Achieving Compromise on Welfare Reform Reauthorization
Authors: Ron Haskins, Paul Offner
Date: May 2003

Title: Financial Conglomerates: The Future of Finance?
Authors: Richard Herring, Robert Litan
Date: April 2003

Title: A Case of "Enronitis"? Opaque Self-Dealing and the Global Financial Effect
Authors: Heather Milkiewicz, Shang-Jin Wei
Date: April 2003

Title: Debating U.S. Broadband Policy: An Economic Perspective
Authors: Robert W. Crandall
Date: March 2003

Title: The New National Security Strategy: Focus on Failed States
Authors: Susan E. Rice
Date: February 2003

Title: After the Mid-terms: Congress, the President and Policymaking in 2003
Authors: E.J. Dionne Jr, Bruce Katz, James M. Lindsay, Thomas E. Mann
Date: February 2003

Title: A "Master Plan" to Deal With North Korea
Authors: Michael O'Hanlon
Date: January 2003

Title: The IMF's Dilemma in Argentina: Time for a New Approach to Lending?
Authors: Carol Graham, Paul Robert Masson
Date: November 2002

Title: Kashmir: Redefining the U.S. Role
Authors: Navnita Chadha Behera
Date: October 2002

Title: Reducing Collateral Damage to Indo-Pakistani Relations from the War on Terrorism
Authors: Polly Nayak
Date: September 2002

Title: Strengthening Financial Sector Governance in Emerging Markets
Authors: Robert Litan, Michael Pomerleano, V. Sundararajan
Date: July 2002

Title: Odious Debt
Authors: Seema Jayachandran, Michael Kremer
Date: July 2002

Title: Earnings Insurance for Germany
Authors: Gary Burtless, Holger Schaefer
Date: July 2002

Title: The Trezise Symposium on the Japanese Economy
Authors: Edward J. Lincoln
Date: June 2002

Title: Avoiding a Cyprus Crisis
Authors: Henri Barkey, Philip H. Gordon
Date: June 2002

Title: Strengthening Institutional Capacity in Poor Countries: Shoring Up Institutions, Reducing Global Poverty
Authors: Carol Graham
Date: April 2002

Title: Putin's Agenda, America's Choice: Russia's Search for Strategic Stability
Authors: Carol Graham
Date: April 2002

Title: Limiting the Growth of the U.S. Defense Budget
Authors: Michael E O'Hanlon
Date: March 2002

Title: A New Agenda for Nuclear Weapons
Authors: Ivo H Daalder, James M Lindsay
Date: February 2002

Title: Should the War on Terrorism Target Iraq?
Authors: Philip H Gordon, Michael E O'Hanlon
Date: January 2002

Title: Taking APEC Seriously
Authors: Edward J Lincoln
Date: December 2001

Title: NATO Enlargement: Moving Forward
Authors: Philip H Gordon, James B Steinberg
Date: December 2001

Title: Indonesia at the Crossroads
Authors: Catharin E Dalpino
Date: September 2001

Title: Beyond Missile Defense
Authors: Michael O'Hanlon
Date: August 2001

Title: America and Iran: From Containment to Coexistence
Authors: Suzanne Maloney
Date: August 2001

Title: Open Doors
Authors: Robert E Litan, Paul Masson, Michael Pomerleano
Date: June 2001

Title: A Patent Policy Proposal for Global Diseases
Authors: Jean O Lanjouw
Date: June 2001

Title: The Caucasus and Central Asia
Authors: Fiona Hill
Date: May 2001

Title: Moving Forward in South Asia
Authors: Stephen P Cohen
Date: May 2001

Title: Stemming the Backlash Against Globalization
Authors: Carol Graham
Date: April 2001

Title: Meeting the Global Challenge of HIV/AIDS
Authors: Erica Barks-Ruggles
Date: April 2001

Title: Corruption and Globalization
Authors: Shang-Jin Wei
Date: April 2001

Title: U.S. Policy Toward China
Authors: Kenneth Lieberthal
Date: March 2001

Title: The United States and North Korea
Authors: Joel Wit
Date: March 2001

Title: A Prescription to Relieve Worker Anxiety
Authors: Lori G. Kletzer, Robert E. Litan
Date: March 2001

Title: Options for Stabilization Policy: A New Analysis of Choices Confronting the Fed
Authors: George A. Akerlof, William T. Dickens, George L. Perry
Date: February 2001

Title: Iraq: Time for a Modified Approach
Authors: Meghan L. O'Sullivan
Date: February 2001

Title: Defending America: A Plan for a Limited National Missile Defense
Authors: James Lindsay, Michael O'Hanlon
Date: February 2001

Title: Dealing Effectively With Fast Growth
Authors: Anthony Downs
Date: November 2000

Title: A New NSC for a New Administration
Authors: Ivo H. Daalder, I.M. Destler
Date: November 2000

Title: Pressure to Grow
Authors: Paul C. Light
Date: October 2000

Title: Moving Beyond Kyoto
Authors: Warwick J. McKibbin
Date: October 2000

Title: How Big is the Prospective Budget Surplus?
Authors: Alan J. Auerbach, William G. Gale
Date: September 2000

Title: Numbers Matter
Authors: Barry P. Bosworth, Jack E. Triplett
Date: July 2000

Title: The Internet and the New Economy
Authors: Alan S. Blinder
Date: June 2000

Title: Resurrecting the Estate Tax
Authors: William G. Gale, Joel Slemrod
Date: June 2000

Title: Engaging Problem Countries
Authors: Richard N. Haass, Meghan L. O'Sullivan
Date: June 2000

Title: The Plight of Academic Medical Centers
Authors: Henry J. Aaron
Date: May 2000

Title: Permanent Normal Trade Relations for China
Authors: Nicholas R. Lardy
Date: May 2000

Title: A World Bank Vaccine Commitment
Authors: Rachel Glennerster, Michael Kremer
Date: May 2000

Title: Counting on the Census?
Authors: Peter Skerry
Date: March 2000

Title: A New Beginning In South Asia
Authors: Stephen Cohen
Date: January 2000

Title: The Use and Abuse of Military Force
Authors: Richard Haass
Date: November 1999

Title: The Plane Truth: Fewer F-22s Mean a Stronger National Defense
Authors: Michael E. O'Hanlon
Date: September 1999

Title: The International Financial Architecture
Authors: Jeffrey A. Frankel
Date: June 1999

Title: Human Rights in China
Authors: Catharin E. Dalpino
Date: June 1999

Title: Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Authors: Jeffrey A. Frankel
Date: June 1999

Title: The Crisis in Emerging Financial Markets
Authors: Alison Harwood, Robert E. Litan, Michael Pomerleano
Date: May 1999

Title: Japan Summit: Economics Matter
Authors: Edward J. Lincoln
Date: May 1999

Title: NATO at 50: The Summit & Beyond
Authors: Ivo H. Daalder
Date: April 1999

Title: Investing in Children
Authors: Isabel V. Sawhill
Date: April 1999

Title: China's WTO Membership
Authors: Nicholas R. Lardy
Date: April 1999

Title: The Case Against Tax Cuts
Authors: Alan J. Auerbach, William G. Gale
Date: March 1999

Title: The Changing Shape of Government
Authors: Paul C. Light
Date: February 1999

Title: International Effects of the Euro
Authors: Robert Solomon
Date: January 1999

Title: Fit for Fat City
Authors: Pietro Nivola
Date: January 1999

Title: Shoring Up Military Readiness
Authors: Michael E. OHanlon, Jerre Wilson
Date: December 1998

Title: Is Deflation the Worry?
Authors: George L. Perry
Date: December 1998

Title: Economic Sanctions: Too Much of a Bad Thing
Authors: Richard N. Haass
Date: June 1998

Title: Avoiding a Showdown Over EU Privacy Laws
Authors: Robert E. Litan, Peter P. Swire
Date: February 1998