Following Japan’s December 2022 release of three major national security documents, some have claimed that the Kishida government plans to double the country’s defense budget by 2027. Adam P. Liff explains why this assertion is incorrect and why it’s critical to get these kinds of numbers right.
A key program within the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act seeks to expand broadband deployment while also offering high-quality jobs to workers that have been excluded historically. Nicol Turner Lee and Jack Malamud discuss the growing demand for workers in America’s broadband sector and outline what it will take to create a more inclusive workforce.
The U.S. Treasury is calling on the World Bank to evolve. With multiple crises upending global development progress and threatening people across the planet, this call is both welcome and urgent, George Ingram and Jonathan Papoulidis say.
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