The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) holds vast reserves of cobalt, copper, and hydropower potential, yet remains among the world’s poorest nations. This policy brief argues that charter cities can serve as “bundled development packages,” aligning infrastructure, industry, and governance reforms to attract competitive international investment. By packaging mining concessions with modern infrastructure, industrial zones, and urban development, the DRC can convert global resource compet...| The Future of Development
Volume 22, Issue 4 September 17, 2025 This brief examines and explains the first comprehensive set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Arkansas’s early care and education (ECE) system, providing a statewide baseline on access, quality, and workforce. Click here to read the Policy Brief| Office for Education Policy (OEP)
I. What’s the Debt? How big is the U.S. national debt? Some reports say that it’s $36 trillion and others say it’s $29 trillion. The two numbers may cause some confusion but both are correct. They simply measure two different things. The larger number is the gross debt, which consists of all forms of U.S. […]| The Concord Coalition
The House tax plan cuts charitable giving tax incentives for donors to most nonprofit groups while roughly tripling the incentive available to donors to groups that fund private K-12 school vouchers. The bill would also allow private school voucher donors to avoid capital gains tax on their gifts of corporate stock, creating a profitable tax shelter for wealthy people who agree to help funnel public funds into private schools. The bill would reduce federal tax revenue by $23.2 billion over th...| ITEP
Read the full brief from The Sentry. Over the past month, there have been calls for the United Nations, the United States, and the European Union to ease sanctions around the world in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. However, calls for blanket rollbacks miss crucial differences in the types of sanctions tools being implemented […] The post Targeted Network Sanctions in Africa and the COVID-19 Pandemic appeared first on The Enough Project.| The Enough Project