your Idea Exchange with Sitaram Yechury: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Thu, 03 May 2012 07:20:16 GMT CPI (M) leader Sitaram Yechury will be our guest at Idea Exchange on Friday, May 4. Reactions on Facebook and Twitter Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Alon Ushpiz: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Thu, 10 May 2012 04:50:42 GMT Israel's Ambassador to India, Alon Ushpiz, will be our guest at Idea Exchange. Ask your questions for him here. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Mushirul Hasan: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Wed, 16 May 2012 08:34:06 GMT Mushirul Hasan, Director General, National Archives and the author of 2 books on cartoons in India, will be our guest at Idea Exchange. Send us your questions for the internationally known historian, author and ex-Vice-Chancellor of Jamia Millia Islamia University at Delhi. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with PA Sangma: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Thu, 24 May 2012 09:34:55 GMT Presidential aspirant P A Sangma, who was also a former Speaker of the Lok Sabha, will be our guest at Idea Exchange on Friday, May 25. Send us your questions for him. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Gautam Gambhir: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 07:03:12 GMT Cricketer Gautam Gambhir, who recently led his team Kolkata Knight Riders to victory in IPL season 5, will be our guest at The Idea Exchange on Saturday, June 9. Send us your questions for him. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Baba Ramdev: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:27:03 GMT Baba Ramdev will be our guest at The Idea Exchange, an interactive session organised by The Indian Express. Send us your questions for him. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Kapil Sibal: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 10:55:53 GMT Union HRD and Telecom Minister Kapil Sibal will be our guest at Idea Exchange, an interactive session organised by the Indian Express. Send us your questions for him. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Virbhadra Singh: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:10:34 GMT Former Union Minister, Virbhadra Singh will be our guest at Idea Exchange on Friday June 29, at 3.45 pm. Send us your questions for him. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Kuldip Nayar: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 11:23:10 GMT Journalist Kuldip Nayar, whose autobiography has just been published, will be our guest on Monday, July 9. Send us your questions for him. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Sir James David Bevan: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Mon, 09 Jul 2012 09:13:06 GMT British High Commissioner to India Sir James David Bevan, who recently received Queen's birthday honour for Diplomatic Service And Overseas honours, will be our guest on Tuesday, July 10. Send us your questions for him. Send us your questions for him. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Jaswant Singh: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Mon, 23 Jul 2012 05:56:41 GMT Senior BJP Leader and NDA's Vice-President candidate Jaswant Singh is our guest at the Idea Exchange today. Send us your questions for him. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Digvijay Singh: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 12:06:22 GMT Senior Congress leader Digvijay Singh will be our guest at Idea Exchange on Tuesday. Send us your questions. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Arun Jaitley: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Tue, 31 Jul 2012 11:27:36 GMT Arun Jaitely, senior BJP politician and leader of the opposition in the Rajya Sabha will be our guest at Idea Exchange. Send us your questions. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Pakistan High Commissioner to India Salman Bashir: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 05:32:25 GMT Salman Bashir, Pakistan High Commissioner to India, will be our guest at Idea Exchange. Send us your questions. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Gagan Narang: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:40:36 GMT Shooting ace Gagan Narang, bronze medallist at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, will be our guest at Idea Exchange. Send us your questions. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Sitaram Yechury: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:03:48 GMT CPI M leader Sitaram Yechury will be our guest at the Idea Exchange on Thursday. Send us your questions for him. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Veerappa Moily: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 06:42:56 GMT Veerappa Moily, Union Minister for Corporate Affairs and Power, will be our guest at the Idea Exchange. Please send us your questions for him. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Montek Singh Alhuwalia: Send us your question By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:41:33 GMT Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Montek Singh Alhuwalia is our guest at the Idea Exchange on September 19. Send us your questions. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Joon-gyu Lee: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:31:01 GMT Joon-gyu Lee, South Korea's Ambassador to India, will be our guest at Idea Exchange on Thursday, October 4, 2012. Please send us your questions for him. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with KG Balakrishnan: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:46:27 GMT NHRC Chairperson, Justice KG Balakrishnan will be our guest at Idea Exchange on October 11. Send us your questions for him. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Nitin Gadkari: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 11:48:35 GMT BJP President Nitin Gadkari will be our guest at Idea Exchange on Monday. Send us your questions for him. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Ashwani Kumar: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 10:53:41 GMT Union Law Minister Ashwani Kumar will be our guest at Idea Exchange on Thursday, November 1. Send us your questions for him. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Satyanand Mishra: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 11:22:59 GMT Chief Information Commissioner Satyanand Mishra is our guest at Idea Exchange. Send us your questions for him. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Irina Bokova: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 10:37:54 GMT UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova will be our guest at Idea Exchange on Monday, November 12 at 2.15 pm. Send us your questions for her. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Kapil Sibal: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 11:36:38 GMT Kapil Sibal, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, will be our guest at Idea Exchange on Tuesday, December 18 at 12.15 pm. Send us your questions for him. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Jitendra Singh: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Fri, 04 Jan 2013 11:14:05 GMT Jitendra Singh, Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Sports, will be our guest at Idea Exchange on Wednesday, January 9 at 12.15 pm. Send us your questions for him. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Salman Bashir: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:18:20 GMT Pakistan High Commissioner to India, Salman Bashir, will be our guest at Idea Exchange on Tuesday, January 22 at 2.45pm. Send us your questions for him. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Justice J S Verma: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 08:49:10 GMT Justice J S Verma will be our guest at Idea Exchange on Tuesday, January 29 at 12.15 pm. Send us your questions for him. Full Article
your Idea Exchange with Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit: Send us your questions By archive.indianexpress.com Published On :: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 12:57:24 GMT Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit will be our guest at Idea Exchange on Wednesday, February 13 at 1 pm. Send us your questions for him. Full Article
your Building your first Brackets extension By www.adobe.com Published On :: Mon Nov 26 22:42:00 UTC 2012 Learn how Brackets extensions work, how to build one from a template or from scratch, and how best to set up your development environment. Full Article
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your Losing your own business is worse than losing a salaried job By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 14:25:21 +0000 The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the ensuing lockdowns, and the near standstill of the global economy have led to massive unemployment in many countries around the world. Workers in the hospitality and travel sectors, as well as freelancers and those in the gig economy, have been particularly hard-hit. Undoubtedly, unemployment is often an economic catastrophe leading… Full Article
your COVID-19 and climate: Your questions, our answers By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: The year 2020 was always going to be critical for climate change, but the coronavirus pandemic dramatically altered the picture in some respects. Earlier this week, Brookings hosted a virtual event on COVID-19 and climate change, moderated by Samantha Gross, and featuring Brookings Senior Fellow Todd Stern, Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Stéphane Hallegatte of the World Bank, and Pablo Vieira of… Full Article
your COVID-19 and climate: Your questions, our answers By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: The year 2020 was always going to be critical for climate change, but the coronavirus pandemic dramatically altered the picture in some respects. Earlier this week, Brookings hosted a virtual event on COVID-19 and climate change, moderated by Samantha Gross, and featuring Brookings Senior Fellow Todd Stern, Ingrid-Gabriela Hoven of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Stéphane Hallegatte of the World Bank, and Pablo Vieira of… Full Article
your Losing your own business is worse than losing a salaried job By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 14:25:21 +0000 The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the ensuing lockdowns, and the near standstill of the global economy have led to massive unemployment in many countries around the world. Workers in the hospitality and travel sectors, as well as freelancers and those in the gig economy, have been particularly hard-hit. Undoubtedly, unemployment is often an economic catastrophe leading… Full Article
your How Much Did Your Vote Cost? Spending Per Voter in the 2014 Senate Races By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 11:45:00 -0500 Totaling more than $111,000,000.00, the 2014 North Carolina Senate contest between Kay Hagan and Thom Tillis is the most expensive Senate election in the nation’s history (not adjusted for inflation). As we investigated earlier this week, outside money has been flowing into American politics in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010. When candidate and independent spending are combined, 2014 ranks among the most expensive, if not the most expensive, in history. However, understanding campaign spending takes more than a simple examination of total dollars. Spending differences across states can occur for a variety of reasons, including geographic size, population size, and the expense of media markets. As a result, a more useful metric for understanding the magnitude of campaign activity is spending per voter, and 2014 offers an interesting case: Alaska. This year, Alaska saw a highly competitive Senate race in which both outside groups and candidates spend substantial amounts of money. Alaska ranks 47th in population with just over 700,000 residents and an estimated 503,000 eligible voters. After adjusting spending (both candidate and independent expenditures) for each state's estimated voting eligible population, Alaska's 2014 Senate race, unsurprisingly, ranks as the most expensive in US history. Alaska originally ranked 6th most expensive in 2014, with about $60 million spent total. But it jumps to first place in dollars spent per voter. Candidates and outside groups spent roughly $120 per voter in Alaska this year, about double the next most-expensive race, Montana 2012, where candidates and outside groups spent $66.5 per voter. By comparison, the $111 million Senate race in North Carolina—with a voting-eligible population of about 6,826,610—equaled only $16.25 per voter. That’s still far above the median spending per race for all three cycles ($7.3 per voter) but certainly serves to put the spending in context. Relative to 2012 and 2014, in terms of both combined and per-voter spending, 2010 could be considered one of the cheaper cycles for Senate races thus far. These data lend some support to the observation that, since Citizens (and more recently McCutcheon v. FEC) independent expenditures are quickly outpacing contributions to candidates. But given changes in reporting requirements and limited data, there is still a lot about outside spending we still don’t know. All in all, candidate and outside group spending totaled just over a billion dollars in Senate races in 2014. The fact that North Carolina alone accounted for more than ten percent of that spending is astonishing, but no less remarkable is the intensity of spending per voter in Alaska. But if spending continues to grow as it has the last three election cycles, both of those records will likely be shattered in 2016. Authors Grace WallackJohn Hudak Image Source: © Matt Sullivan / Reuters Full Article
your Map: The Earned Income Tax Credit in Your County By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0500 Full Article
your The case for universal voting: What's your opinion? By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 10:00:00 -0400 In a new research paper—The case for universal voting: Why making voting a duty would enhance our elections and improve our government—Brookings scholars E.J. Dionne, Jr. and William Galston make the case for universal voting—an electoral system in which voting would be regarded as a required, civic duty. Why not treat showing up at the polls in the same way we treat, say, a jury summons? Dionne and Galston argue that universal voting’s benefits would include enhancing the legitimacy of our governing institutions, increasing turnout and the diversity of the American voter base, and easing the intense partisan polarization that weakens our governing capacity. What do you think of Dionne and Galston’s proposal? Specifically, if voting and registration rules were made easier, should voting in national elections be universal and mandatory for all eligible citizens? To voice your opinion, click the image below and vote. We will share the results on social media. Authors John Hudak Image Source: © Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Full Article
your Losing your own business is worse than losing a salaried job By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 14:25:21 +0000 The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the ensuing lockdowns, and the near standstill of the global economy have led to massive unemployment in many countries around the world. Workers in the hospitality and travel sectors, as well as freelancers and those in the gig economy, have been particularly hard-hit. Undoubtedly, unemployment is often an economic catastrophe leading… Full Article
your Losing your own business is worse than losing a salaried job By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Thu, 07 May 2020 14:25:21 +0000 The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the ensuing lockdowns, and the near standstill of the global economy have led to massive unemployment in many countries around the world. Workers in the hospitality and travel sectors, as well as freelancers and those in the gig economy, have been particularly hard-hit. Undoubtedly, unemployment is often an economic catastrophe leading… Full Article
your The real reason your paycheck is not where it could be By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 11:34:00 -0400 For more than a decade, the economy’s rate of productivity growth has been dismal, which is bad news for workers since their incomes rise slowly or not at all when this is the case. Economists have struggled to understand why American productivity has been so weak. After all, with all the information technology innovations that make our lives easier like iPhones, Google, and Uber, why hasn’t our country been able to work more productively, giving us either more leisure time, or allowed us to get more done at work and paid more in return? One answer often given is that the government statisticians must be measuring something wrong – notably, the benefits of Google and all the free stuff we can now access on our phones, tablets and computers. Perhaps government statisticians just couldn’t figure out how to include those new services in a meaningful way into the data? A new research paper by Fed economists throws cold water on that idea. They think that free stuff like Facebook should not be counted in GDP, or in measures of productivity, because consumers do not pay for these services directly; the costs of providing them are paid for by advertisers. The authors point out that free services paid for by advertising are not new; for example, when television broadcasting was introduced it was provided free to households and much of it still is. The Fed economists argue that free services like Google are a form of “consumer surplus,” defined as the value consumers place on the things they buy that is over and above the price they have paid. Consumer surplus has never been included in past measures of GDP or productivity, they point out. Economist Robert Gordon, who commented on the Fed paper at the conference where it was presented, argued that even if consumer surplus were to be counted, most of the free stuff such as search engines, e-commerce, airport check-in kiosks and the like was already available by 2004, and hence would not explain the productivity growth slowdown that occurred around that time. The Fed economists also point out that the slowdown in productivity growth is a very big deal. If the rate of growth achieved from 1995 to 2004 had continued for another decade, GDP would have been $3 trillion higher, the authors calculate. And the United States is not alone in facing weak productivity; it is a problem for all developed economies. It is hard to believe that such a large problem faced by so many countries could be explained by errors in the way GDP and productivity are measured. Even though I agree with the Fed authors that the growth slowdown is real, there are potentially serious measurement problems for the economy that predate the 2004 slowdown. Health care is the most important example. It amounts to around 19% of GDP and in the official accounts there has been no productivity growth at all in this sector over many, many years. In part that may reflect inefficiencies in health care delivery, but no one can doubt that the quality of care has increased. New diagnostic and scanning technologies, new surgical procedures, and new drugs have transformed how patients are treated and yet none of these advances has been counted in measured productivity data. The pace of medical progress probably was just as fast in the past as it is now, so this measurement problem does not explain the slowdown. Nevertheless, trying to obtain better measures of health care productivity is an urgent task. The fault is not with the government’s statisticians, who do a tremendous job with very limited resources. The fault lies with those in Congress who undervalue good economic statistics. Gordon, in his influential new book The Rise and Fall of American Growth, argues that the American engine of innovation has largely run its course. The big and important innovations are behind us and future productivity growth will be slow. My own view is that the digital revolution has not nearly reached an end, and advances in materials science and biotechnology promise important innovations to come. Productivity growth seems to go in waves and is impossible to forecast, so it is hard to say for sure if Gordon is wrong, but I think he is. Fortune reported in June 2015 that 70% of its top 500 CEOs listed rapid technological change as their biggest challenge. I am confident that companies will figure out the technology challenge, and productivity growth will get back on track, hopefully sooner rather than later. Editor’s note: This piece originally appeared in Fortune. Authors Martin Neil Baily Publication: Fortune Image Source: © Jessica Rinaldi / Reuters Full Article
your Assessing your innovation district: A how-to guide By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 18:58:21 +0000 “Assessing your innovation district: A how-to guide,” is a tool for public and private leaders to audit the assets that comprise their local innovation ecosystem. The guide is designed to reveal how to best target resources toward innovative and inclusive economic development tailored to an area’s unique strengths and challenges. Over the past two decades,… Full Article
your Assessing your innovation district: Five key questions to explore By webfeeds.brookings.edu Published On :: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 20:39:52 +0000 Over the past two decades, a confluence of changing market demands and demographic preferences have led to a revaluation of urban places—and a corresponding shift in the geography of innovation. This trend has resulted in a clustering of firms, intermediaries, and workers—often near universities, medical centers, or other anchors—in dense innovation districts. Local economic development… Full Article
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