So far, President Biden’s judicial appointees have filled proportionately more judgeships than most recent presidents and showed striking demographic and vocational diversity. What is the outlook for the president’s nominations in 2022? Russell Wheeler takes a look at judicial vacancies Biden can attempt to fill this year and discusses the hurdles he will face along the way.
On the first episode of our new Foresight Africa podcast, host Aloysius Ordu talks with Lesly Goh and Buhle Goslar about protecting African consumers from digital harms and how African businesses can be proactive about data protection. Subscribe or follow the podcast on Apple, Spotify, and Google Podcasts.
The world has taken remarkable steps to reduce poverty in the last 30 years, but new trends are emerging that signal a very different landscape ahead. In their new working paper, Homi Kharas and Meagan Dooley assess global poverty and where the world’s poor are most heavily concentrated.
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