Showing posts with label Fred Dews. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fred Dews. Show all posts

Thursday, 13 October 2016

Brookings’s role in “the greatest reformation in governmental practices”—the 1921 budget reform (Fred Dews, Brookings)

" I do not think that anyone can fairly say that the United States Government has a budgetary system.” On September 22, 1921, William F. Willoughby, director of the Institute for Government Research (IGR) in Washington, DC, testified to a House Select Committee on the Budget on the “Establishment of a National Budget System.” Willoughby had, for many years, been concerned with the problem of the lack of a national budget system and, as director of the still-new research organization—the forerunner of today’s Brookings Institution—he was well-position to offer his expert recommendations on legislation that would become the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921.

Wednesday, 5 October 2016

WATCH: World Bank Group President Kim on globalization, ending extreme poverty, and addressing climate change (Fred Dews, Brookings)

We need more cooperation [and] greater economic integration and stronger partnerships than ever before if we want the world economy to return to higher rates of inclusive, sustainable growth,” World Bank Group President Dr. Jim Yong Kim told a Brookings audience this week, on the eve of the annual meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund.

Friday, 22 July 2016

WATCH: Experts on the failed coup in Turkey, what it means, and what happens next (Fred Dews, Brookings)

On July 15, some members of Turkey’s military attempted a coup against the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Forces loyal to the government as well as civilian supporters thwarted the coup by the next morning as President Erdoğan addressed the nation from Istanbul. This week, experts from Foreign Policy at Brookings offered their analysis about the implications of the coup attempt and aftermath for Turkish democracy, the regional situation—including the civil war in Syria and the fight against ISIS—and Turkey’s critical role in regional, European, and global affairs. Here are video highlights of their remarks. Visit the event’s page for full event audio and video of the discussion.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brookings-now/posts/2016/07/experts-on-failed-coup-in-turkey

Thursday, 2 June 2016

Cuban millennials look ahead to building the new Cuban economy (Tess Snodgrass, Fred Dews, Brookings)

“Goodwill and common sense will prevail,” University of Havana economist Ricardo Torres proclaimed at a Brookings event (full video available) with two other young Cuban leaders plus Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow Richard Feinberg, moderated by NPR Correspondent Tom Gjelten.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/brookings-now/posts/2016/06/cuban-millennials-look-ahead-to-building-new-cuban-economy

Saturday, 28 May 2016