Is the electric grid ready for the era of decarbonization? Nonresident scholar Julie A. Cohn explains why new inverter technology could prove vital for preventing outages and grid instability.
The Biden administration’s new industrial policy initiatives aim to help the U.S. compete with China, battle climate change and provide middle class jobs. Will these policies work or fade away like previous efforts?
Even though the United States has long maintained a dominant presence in the Gulf, the Chinese social contract model may actually more applicable to the social and economic dynamics of GCC states than the Western orthodoxy of political liberalism and unbridled free market policies, the author argues in this issue brief.
An investment strategy that generates financial returns while directing funds to entities providing goods and services to the poor is making headway in Latin America.
Impact investments — investments made with the intention to generate a social and environmental impact alongisde a financial return — have gained momentum both in developed and developing countries in recent years.