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December 1, 2016

Economics
New Tools Increase Women’s Financial Inclusion in Nigeria

This post is co-authored by Becky Allen, a research associate in the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. Nigeria has been identified as one of eleven emerging eco…

Women arrange produce for sale at a roadside market in Ojodu district in Lagos

September 16, 2021

United Nations
Biden’s Tricky UN Message to a Troubled World

Biden faces a dual challenge at the UN General Assembly. He must convince the world that the U.S. is committed to multilateralism while persuading the American public that the UN can be an indispensa…

U.S. President Joe Biden gestures with both hands as he delivers a foreign policy address with an American flag in the background as Vice President Kamala Harris listens during a visit to the State Department in Washington, DC, on February 4, 2021.

March 24, 2017

Arctic
Canary in the Coal Mine: The Arctic as a National Imperative

The following is a guest post by Theresa Lou, research associate in the International Institutions and Global Governance program. The Arctic is changing rapidly. It is warming at twice the rate as…

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December 22, 2010

Politics and Government
Turn Out the Lights

Somewhere up above Dandy Don Meredith is singing "Turn Out the Lights, The Party’s Over." Unless Senators Mitch McConnell and Jon Kyl can find some of the magic that graced the Philadelphia Eagles …

Turn Out the Lights

July 20, 2016

Economics
Hacking the Gender Gap: Why the Tech Industry Needs More Women

This post is by Becky Allen, a research associate for the Women and Foreign Policy program at the Council on Foreign Relations. As evidenced by the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women program, the Tory Bur…

A worker is seen during manufacturing process for Egypt's first tablet computer "Inar" at a factory in Benha