Gayle Tzemach Lemmon discusses innovations that are enabling entrepreneurs to secure financing.

This was a meeting of the Roundtable Series on Entrepreneurs and Market Linkages.

Terra Lawson-Remer says Jim Yong Kim will help steer the World Bank in the right direction.

President Obama formed the Council on Jobs to provide differing perspectives and non-partisan advice on bolstering the economy through fostering job creation, innovation, growth, and competitiveness. At this CFR meeting, experts discuss the Council's work and recommendations.

This was a meeting of the roundtable series, Opportunity and Exclusion in the Global Economy.

President Obama formed the Council on Jobs to provide differing perspectives and non-partisan advice on bolstering the economy through fostering job creation, innovation, growth, and competitiveness. At this CFR meeting, experts discuss the Council's work and recommendations.

China faces growing internal and external calls for economic and political reforms. Expert Minxin Pei looks at the political transition under way and discusses prospects for change.

Michael Spence writes that myopic U.S. energy policies highlight the need for persistence, longer-term thinking, and bipartisanship in U.S. policymaking.

Sebastian Mallaby considers how the advent of smart supercomputers raises tough questions about inequality and jobs.

This session was part of the Women and Foreign Policy Roundtable series, organized by the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative.

The Brookings Institution and Public Sector Consulting report that Michigan should take advantage of its second-strongest post-recession recovery by strengthening links between innovation and manufacturing, making targeted investments within urban areas, and supporting highly trained workers and regional systems.

To achieve sustainable economic growth, Michael Spence says education and values must promote greater awareness of the consequences of individual and collective choices.

This roundtable meeting was part of the project, Entrepreneurs and Market Linkages in Conflict and Post-Conflict Environments, organized by the Civil Society, Markets, and Democracy Initiative.

Jagdish Bhagwati recommends developing nations avoid emigration restrictions to stem the outflow of their skilled workers.

The UN High-level Panel on Global Sustainability released this report, "Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A Future Worth Choosing", on January 30, 2012. The panel was assembled to "formulate a new blueprint for sustainable development and low-carbon prosperity" and its final report "contains 56 recommendations to put sustainable development into practice and to mainstream it into economic policy as quickly as possible".

John Campbell argues, "Only genuine reform of Nigeria's political economy can pull it back from the brink."

Michael Spence wants to rethink the role of the state in addressing the problems of instability and inequality that are endemic to free-market systems.

Peter Orszag writes that investment in equipment and software is likely to remain a bright spot in the U.S. economy in 2012.

Sebastian Mallaby argues that the internationalization of the renminbi is less a sign of China's rise than of China's internal confusion.