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March 30, 2017

Global
Automation, Job Loss, and the Welfare State

Experts explore the potential for mass job loss created by technological advances and, in turn, the possible need for a large welfare state to care for an increasingly underemployed population.

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July 26, 2006

Emerging Markets
Is Saudi Arabia the new IMF?

Last week I was beginning to think the IMF might be back in business.   A couple of press reports hinted that Lebanon’s central bank was facing real pressure.    Folks fleeing the country wanted doll…

April 12, 2009

United States
Skilled Immigration Today

Teaching Notes on Skilled Immigration Today: Prospects, Problems and Policies by CFR Senior Fellow Jagdish N. Bhagwati and coauthor Gordon Hanson.

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May 16, 2012

Education
Business, Immigration, and Political Dysfunction

I had not intended it this way, but this will be my second item in just a week on political dysfunction in Washington. I participated yesterday in a superb forum on the prospects for immigration ref…

CFR's Edward Alden, former Senator Chuck Hagel, and UNITE HERE President John Wilhelm speak at the Hamilton Project event "U.S. Immigration Policy: The Border Between Reform and the Economy" at the Brookings Institution on May 15, 2012. (Paul Morigi/Paul Morigi Photography)

June 3, 2016

Digital Policy
Cyber Week in Review: June 3, 2016

Here is a quick round-up of this week’s technology headlines and related stories you may have missed: 1. Safe Harbor successor unable to make it safely into harbor. The prospect of Privacy Shield wi…

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