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BROOKINGS
LAUNCHES NEW GLOBAL
ECONOMY &
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (MaximsNews.com,
UN)
UNITED NATIONS - / www.MaximsNews.com/
- 5
July 2006 -- WASHINGTON
/ -- The Brookings
Institution announced
the launch of the Global
Economy and Development
Program, which on 1 July
became the fifth major
program at Brookings,
joining Economic
Studies, Foreign Policy
Studies, Governance
Studies and Metropolitan
Policy Studies.
Lael
Brainard -- vice
president, holder of the
Bernard L. Schwartz
chair in International
Economics and current
director of the
Brookings Global Economy
and Development Center
-- will head the new
program.
"In
recent years, the impact
of globalization has
become a central concern
for policymakers,
business executives, and
civil society, not only
in the U.S. but around
the world," said
Strobe Talbott,
president of the
Brookings
Institution.
"The
mission of the Global
Economy and Development
Program will be to
examine changes in the
global economy in areas
ranging from trade to
poverty to the rise of
new economic
powers."
Under
Brainard's leadership,
the program will address
the full range of issues
surrounding the global
economy and development,
including energy
security, trade and
competitiveness,
pandemic diseases and
poverty
alleviation.
The
new program will broaden
the economic dimensions
of Brookings's already
extensive work on new
global powers such as
China, India, Brazil and
Russia.
Working
together with the
Institution's other
research programs,
especially Foreign
Policy Studies, the
Global Economy and
Development Program will
help fulfill the
Brookings commitment to
building an
international team that
combines breadth and
depth across the full
spectrum of public
policy issues to advance
U.S. and global
prosperity, security and
political
sustainability.
"The
goal of this new program
is to offer compelling
recommendations, founded
on fact-based research
and sound analysis, in
order to materially
shape the policy debate
on both the
opportunities and
challenges created by an
increasingly globalized
world," Brainard
said.
"We
intend to offer
practical advice to
policymakers both in the
U.S. and abroad on how
to harness the power and
potential of
globalization."
Major
support for the program
has come from James D.
Wolfensohn, Bernard L.
Schwartz, Richard C.
Blum and the William and
Flora Hewlett
Foundation.
For
more information on
Brookings work on global
economy and development,
please visit http://www.brookings.edu/global.
The
Brookings Institution is
a private nonprofit
organization devoted to
independent research and
innovative policy
solutions. Celebrating
its 90th anniversary in
2006, Brookings analyzes
current and emerging
issues and produces new
ideas that matter -- for
the nation and the
world. Shawn
Dhar of Brookings
Institution,
202-797-6146, or sdhar@brookings.edu
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