A spiraling supply shock spreading across Asia threatens to cross the Pacific and reshape everyday life in the United States
On March 30, 2021, a federal grand jury returned a five-count indictment charging Jesús Abdiel Feliciano-Candelario with offenses related to two robberies and a carjacking, announced W. Stephen Muldrow, United States Attorney for the District of Puerto Rico. On April 1, the U.S. Marshals took Feliciano-Candelario into federal custody.
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The International Organization for Migration (IOM), Nadia’s Initiative (NI) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) are working together to scale up support to Yazidi survivors of genocide.
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Many of the poorest countries in the world are facing the threat of a weak recovery, and setback in their development path.
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The world economy faces sharply divergent growth prospects across various regions, as prospects of a uniform swift snapback from a dismal 2020 have become clouded.
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WASHINGTON – Lora Ries, Heritage senior research fellow for homeland security, and Mark Morgan, former Customs and Border Protection (CBP) acting director and Heritage Foundation visiting fellow, released a statement Friday following the release of illegal border crossing numbers for March. More than 171,000 illegal aliens were apprehended in March, a 400% increase compared to crossings in March 2020:
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The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) are streamlining their cooperation to promote economic development and investment across countries where both institutions are active.
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COVID-19 has unfairly impacted some people more harshly than others, exacerbating existing inequities in health and welfare within and between countries.
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The Commission approved the first decisions under REACT-EU (Recovery Assistance for Cohesion and the Territories of Europe) involving a modification of four operational programmes for the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in the Netherlands and Austria that will increase the funding available for investments by nearly €262 million from REACT-EU.
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Access to clean water has long been a major challenge for most residents of Tajikistan, a country where the underfunded public infrastructure has left even urban residents without a reliable water supply.
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Last week, Brookings Metro’s Joseph Parilla and the Fund for Our Economic Future’s Brad Whitehead noted that money from the new American Rescue Plan Act (ARP)—the $1.9 trillion federal COVID-19 relief package—represents an opportunity for state and local officials to “invest” in their communities rather than simply “spend” their significant allotments.
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