Demographics

South Korea’s unprecedented ultra-low fertility requires a paradigm shift in the country’s approach to the family. The government should take bold steps to support children and their families while recognizing…

The universal relaxation of China’s one-child policy since 2016 has not produced sustained population growth as desired by Beijing. Now incentivizing births for the party-state’s economic and political objectives, China’s…

COVID-19 has illuminated systemic racism as a public health crisis in the United States. In the wake of a national conversation to undo a legacy of racial injustice, there is…

This article is the second installment of a two-part series. It reviews the alternative, non-centralized approaches to contact tracing currently being implemented in many Western democracies. The first…

This article is the first installment in a two-part series. Unlike South Korea’s centralized approach to contact tracing, other democracies faced legal impediments to similar approaches. The second installment reviews…

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh has brought into focus both the striking power differential between Euro-American retailers and national suppliers and the damaging effects of this asymmetry.

The ongoing disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic has raised questions about the fragility of global interdependence and, more broadly, the future of the international order. Professor Vittorio Emanuele…

As the United States grapples with conversations around race and COVID-19, Gbenga Ajilore, a senior economist at the Center for American Progress, joins GJIA to discuss how these…

A young woman, social entrepreneur, and new mother in Mexico named Mariana recently told me, “solidarity and action are what will help us overcome this crisis. We aren’t just waiting…

Brazil’s income inequality is among the world’s worst. The country’s unemployment rate is currently 13 percent, compared to 4.6 percent in 2012, and the number of Brazilians in…