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September 14, 2021

Aging, Youth Bulges, and Population
Centennial Speaker Series Session 5: Comparative Demographic Trends & Their Implications

Nicholas Eberstadt discusses U.S. demographic exceptionalism and how demographic trends will drive policymaking in the 21st century. This meeting is the fifth session in CFR’s speaker series, The …

Play Line graph showing that the world's population is getting older with demographics from countries like Germany and Japan.

July 15, 2020

Democracy
Virtual Roundtable: Scotland's Place in the World: Brexit and Pandemic Recovery

David Scheffer: Thank you very much. Hello, everyone. I'm David Scheffer, visiting senior fellow on international law at the Council on Foreign Relations. And I've been a longtime student of Scott…

Play Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon stands in front of a blue Scottish flag

July 2, 2020

World Economic Update Dedicated to Martin Feldstein

The World Economic Update highlights the quarter’s most important and emerging trends. Discussions cover changes in the global marketplace with special emphasis on current economic events and their i…

Play Martin Feldstein at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's annual Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium.

September 18, 2019

United States
Report Launch of CFR Independent Task Force on Innovation and National Security

For the past three-quarters of a century, the United States has led the world in technological innovation and development. The nation now risks falling behind its competitors, principally China. Inno…

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April 20, 2018

Health Policy and Initiatives
Are There Still Shortcuts on the Road to Health? The Role of Philanthropy, Technology, and Community Health Systems

Nearly forty years ago, Jon Rohde wrote a paper that argued that the “road to health has shortcuts,” advocating a strategy of expanded childhood immunization that helped inspire the UNICEF and World …

Women and their children wait in line to receive a polio vaccine shot at a health centre in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.