Brookings Institution

As 2024 comes to a close and we look ahead to 2025, Esther Lee Rosen, senior director of communications in the Global Economy and Development program, sat down with Vice President and Director Brahima S. Coulibaly to discuss the economic outlook moving forward.

Markets are focused on the European growth model, which is suffering after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

How states are catalyzing awareness to drive action for workers without bachelor’s degrees.

Making policies for economic autonomy work for all women.

Private transfers of resources across generations are as old as society itself.

The leadership of the Federal Reserve has undergone substantial turnover in the past few years. President Biden has put four new governors on the seven-member Federal Reserve Board in Washington, and several of the 12 regional Fed banks have named new presidents.

Whether Trump’s proposed 25% tariffs on all imports from Mexico and Canada could lead to further progress on these issues is uncertain. But it is clear that if implemented, these tariffs will harm U.S. industry.

This explainer explores why financial markets struggle to incorporate the value of nature and the potential solutions that have been proposed.

Advanced technologies have already provided and continue to offer unprecedented opportunities for the continent to improve business performance and connect millions of unbanked people to financial services.