America's Infrastructure Opportunity, Corruption in Asia, and More

December 17, 2022

Seizing the US infrastructure opportunity: Investing in current and future workers

Recent pieces of legislation are pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into U.S. infrastructure projects. While this generational level of investment offers an important opportunity for future job creation, leaders should not overlook the existing infrastructure workforce and its needs, Joseph Kane argues.

Corruption and democracy in Asia

Liberal democracies should be more resilient to corruption than authoritarian regimes, but experiences in Asia show that the region's democratic governments are by no means immune from corruption. Thomas Pepinsky and co-authors provide anti-corruption activists and democratic policymakers with important tools and insights to tackle this problem in the Asia-Pacific region.

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How can we measure the impact of carbon prices on global warming?

The extent of future climate change largely depends on policy choices that the world makes today, but quantifying the link between policy actions and subsequent climate outcomes is hard to do. Glenn Rudebusch and David Wessel explain how climate policy curves can measure that link and enable comparison of alternative climate policies.

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