Building a broader, more diverse pool of innovators: A Q&A with Rodney Sampson of TechSquare Labs (Joseph Parilla, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2016/12/20/building-a-diverse-pool-of-innovators/

Where global trade has the biggest impact on workers (Joseph Parilla, Mark Muro, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2016/12/14/where-global-trade-has-the-biggest-impact-on-workers/

Christine Lagarde wants to jumpstart inclusive growth: Why she should enlist cities (Joseph Parilla, Brookings)

The International Monetary Fund downgraded its forecast for global growth last week during the Fund’s annual meeting in Washington. In her keynote remarks, Managing Director Christine Lagarde made a forceful argument to the finance ministers in attendance that a period in which “growth has been too low, for too long, and benefiting too few” has frayed social and political commitments to global integration and openness to trade and immigration.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2016/10/17/christine-lagarde-wants-to-jumpstart-inclusive-growth-why-she-should-enlist-cities/

Redefining Global Cities (Jesus Leal Trujillo, Joseph Parilla, Brookings)

The world’s largest metropolitan areas concentrate the drivers of global prosperity, but there isn’t one way to be a global city—this report defines seven types of global cities, providing a valuable lens through which to understand an evolving global economy.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/redefining-global-cities/

Export Monitor 2016: Large metro areas expand exports amid national decline (Nick Marchio, Joseph Parilla, Jesus Leal Trujillo, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/2016/09/08/export-monitor-2016-large-metro-areas-expand-exports-amid-national-decline/

Achieving inclusive growth in cities (Joseph Parilla, Alan Berube, Brookings)

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/07/05-inclusive-growth-in-cities-parilla-berube

Paris bets big on science and technology with new mega-university (Joseph Parilla, Marek Gootman, Brookings)

When asked how to create a great city, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan said: “Create a great university and wait 200 years.” It would be an understatement, then, to say that the fall 2015 launch of the University of Paris-Saclay—which merges 18 French academic and research institutions in one sprawling 30-square-mile research campus—heeds Moynihan’s words. As part of a Global Cities Initiative research effort to benchmark the Paris region’s global competitiveness, we visited the Paris-Saclay cluster to better understand this transformative investment.

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/the-avenue/posts/2016/05/11-paris-mega-university-parilla-gootman

Global Santiago: Profiling the metropolitan region's international competitiveness and connections (Jesus Leal Trujillo, Joseph Parilla, Slaven Razmilic, Brookings)

Over the past two decades, the Santiago Metropolitan Region, like all of Chile, has emerged on the global stage. Accounting for nearly half of the nation’s GDP, Santiago contains a significant set of economic assets—an increasingly well-educated workforce, major universities, and a stable of large global companies and budding start-ups.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2016/04/13-global-santiago-trujillo-parilla-razmilic

U.S. cities should not abandon trade (Amy Liu, Joseph Parilla, Brookings)

The steep decline of manufacturing jobs, stagnant wages, and rising anger among working class voters about their economic future has sparked a growing skepticism about globalization, launching the country into a weeks-long back and forth about the merits of trade for the U.S. economy.

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Greater Charlotte in the global economy: Benchmarking the region's global competitiveness assets (Marek Gootman, Joseph Parilla, Brookings)

This benchmarking study, developed by the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, provides the Greater Charlotte region with a framework and data to better understand its performance and position in the global economy, offering information and insights to help leaders more actively shape the region’s economic strategy.

http://www.brookings.edu/research/presentations/2016/03/23-greater-charlotte-global-economy-parilla