May 30, 2019, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Alaina Harkness, Reuters, Download Report (PDF), This paper explores how city leaders can use economic power to narrow the gap in wealth and opportunity., Introduction, Research shows that intergenerational mobility—the “American dream” shared by most ...

October 16, 2019, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Roger Thurow, Download Report (PDF), This paper seeks to raise awareness of the growing global obesity epidemic and the need to address the economic, security, and humanitarian threats it poses., Introduction, While the development community has been foc...

May 5, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura and Sam Dong, Damian Dovarganes / AP, Download Report (PDF), Large majorities of the public view international trade as good for the US economy, job creation, and people like them., A week after announcing his “Liberation Day” tariff...

July 7, 2018, RESEARCH Policy Brief by Ian Klaus , Hugo Decramer , Michele Acuto , Juliana Kerr , Sam Tabory , and Noah J. Toly, Download Report (PDF), Cities are now more connected than ever before on a global scale. Yet local governments are not just spectators of this networked age: they are a...

June 22, 2017, RESEARCH Report, Richard Schneider, Download Report (PDF), This report is the product of an international effort between Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago and Mayor Anne Hidalgo of Paris to advance the discussion over how to transform neglected urban waterways., Urban waterways are nat...

September 3, 2025, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Dina Smeltz , Craig Kafura , Sam Dong , Yawei Liu , and Nick Zeller, Mary Altaffer / Pool via AP, Download Report (PDF), Whether Beijing should take any leadership position on the world stage, however, is an overwhelming “yes.”, New researc...

April 1, 2019, RESEARCH Report by Catherine Bertini, Caren Firouz/Reuters, Download Report (PDF), This report is a collection of perspectives from 20 authors that highlights the needs of rural girls and solutions to the challenges they face., Introduction, Girls Leading: From Rural Economies to G...

May 21, 2015, RESEARCH Book by Richard C. Longworth, Download Book (PDF), This book draws on the latest scholarship into global cities to explore how global cities run the world., Introduction, To understand the 21st century, we must understand global cities. If we live in a city that aspires to ...

October 20, 2020, RESEARCH Report by Paul Hofhuis, COP21, Download Report (PDF), A Democratic victory provides greater opportunity for transatlantic collaboration, but underlying structures for cooperation among societal stakeholders in the United States need to be reinvigorated., Introduction, A...

June 27, 2019, RESEARCH Public Opinion Survey by Craig Kafura, CDC Global, Download Report (PDF), According to foreign policy leader surveys concerns about a potential trade war between the US and China are widespread., Introduction, According to surveys conducted in 2018 among foreign policy opi...